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Dis/Comforting Shelfies: Travelling Literacies Other-Wise in Disrupted Times

Dis/Comforting Shelfies: Travelling Literacies Other-Wise in Disrupted Times

Written by:
Fiona Scott, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Amélie Lemieux, University of Montreal, Canada
Kelly C. Johnston, Baylor University, United States

Abstract: COVID-19 is reshaping working arrangements in traditionally office-based professions. For scholars, these disruptions emphasise the need to examine how literacies travel other-wise (Lemieux et al., forthcoming) through Zoom meetings, shelfie tweets, and bookshelf photographs. Here, we evoke the altered paths that bodies, objects, and ideas are travelling as workers curate, negotiate, and become implicated in ‘zoomentities’. This posthuman, trioethnographic (Breault et al., 2012) piece attempts to map these altered paths.

Keywords: shelfies, literacies, reading', ethnography, collaboration, Zoom