By embracing a rapidly changing digital world the socalled millennial adolescent is proving quite adept at breaking down ageold distinctions among disciplines between high and lowbrow media culture and within print and digitized text types. Adolescents and Literacies in a Digital World explores the significance of digital technologies and media in youths negotiated approaches to making meaning within a broad array of selfdefined literacy practices. Organized around a series of case studies this book blends theories of an attention economy generational differences communication technologies and neoliberal enactive texts with actual accounts of adolescents use of instant messaging shapeshifting portfolios critical inquiry and media production.