Damiana Gibbons

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Damiana Gibbons is a doctoral student in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a major in literacy studies and a minor in composition and rhetoric. Her research focuses on media production, identity, and literacy. Using a critical literacy perspective, she examines the intersections of the visual, the spoken, the written, and the performed in youth video production using multimodal discourse analysis to uncover the various layers in the teaching of youth media production, in the products of the videos themselves, and in the context that surrounds their production. In studying youth media organizations that work with youth from non-dominant cultures, her work explores the ethical implications of what is made possible for youth as well as what they take up as possible in expressing their identities using new digital media.

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