'It's Better That She Sees Me': Digital Visual Literacy Narratives of Women Immigrants in Chile and Implications for Adult Literacy

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Females; Immigrants; Foreign Countries; Information Technology; Visual Literacy; Family Relationship; Technological Literacy; Telecommunications; Handheld Devices; Multiple Literacies; Gender Differences; Adult Literacy; Literacy Education; Federal Legislation; Federal Programs; International Educational Exchange; Spanish; Haitians; Creoles; Profiles; Videoconferencing; Social Media; Computer Mediated Communication; Rural Areas; Access to Computers

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Narratives drawn from a Fulbright study of immigrant women in Chile communicating with their families at-a-distance through information and communication technologies show that they utilized digital visual literacy practices. Digital visual literacy is a combination of digital literacy and visual literacy and even goes beyond these conceptualizations. By manipulating their levels of visibility through platforms on smartphone devices, immigrant women strove to create a sense of co-presence with their families abroad. This paper demonstrates the complexity and relevance of combining visuality with multi-literacies, voice, and gendered narratives of digital communication for immigrants inside and outside of adult literacy classrooms.

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2022

EJ1344723