Abstract
This project pertains to the research line "Literacy and intercultural communication" of the Research Group LEETRA (CNPq). It is based on studies on situated literacy(Street, 1993; Hamilton, Barton, Ivanic, 1993; Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Kleiman, 1995)and on new technologies (Gee, 2004, 2010; Buzato, 2009). Examples of genres derived from new technologies are e-mail, tweet, on-li…