“Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News”

We are delighted to announce the publication of “Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News,” a special issue of Literacy in Composition Studies, now live at www.licsjournal.org. This issue features the following pieces:

• “Introduction to Special Issue on Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News: Making it Right in the Era of Fast and Slow Literacies” by Thomas P. Miller and Adele Leon

• “Navigating a Varied Landscape: Literacy and Credibility of Networked Information” by Jacob W. Craig

• “How Automated Writing Systems Affect the Circulation of Political Information Online” by Timothy Laquintano and Annette Vee

• “‘Globalist Scumbags’: Composition’s Global Turn in a Time of Fake News, Globalist Conspiracy, and Nationalist Literacy” by Christopher Minnix

• “Toward a Theory and Pedagogy of Rhetorical Vulnerability” by David Riche

Also included is the symposium essay “Literacy and Rhetoric as Complementary Keywords” by Ben Wetherbee and a review of Katrina M. Powell’s Identity and Power in Narratives of Displacement by Tabetha Adkins.

LiCS is an open-access online scholarly journal--please share this timely issue with your colleagues and networks. We welcome queries at licsjournal@gmail.com.

We hope you enjoy the read!