Linda Undrum
Postdoctoral fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University
Linda Undrum researches multimodal texts and literacy practices in social media. Through her research, she aims to explore how teachers and teacher education can contribute to students’ development of critical literacy, which is a key competence in our increasingly complex digital society.
She has a master’s degree in Norwegian didactics, and a PhD from the University of South-Eastern Norway, where she explored Critical Literacy, Multimodality and Social Media. She has extensive experience in teaching, mainly the subject Norwegian as L1, including in lower secondary school and in teacher education.
Tell us about your project!
In this project, I explore texts and literacy practices in social media that are central to young people’s daily lives. I also examine how classroom engagement with and reflection on social media can serve as a resource for developing students’ critical literacy. In school, students are expected to develop the ability to act critically and consciously when encountering the many texts that surround them. At the same time, teachers may find it challenging to gain sufficient insight into students’ text cultures and to provide relevant didactic approaches. The aim of this project is therefore to produce updated research on digital text cultures that young people participate in, and on how teachers can support them in developing the critical competence they need when engaging with various texts and practices in their everyday lives.
“In this project, I explore texts and literacy practices in social media that are central to young people’s daily lives”
— Linda Undrum on her research project “Critical Literacy in the Age of Social Media and Artificial Intelligence”