Abstract
This chapter discusses the literacy narratives of coauthors, Dipo Lashore and Pengfei Song, who grew up a world apart, but who attended school in the United States for undergraduate and graduate studies and became increasingly immersed in learning digital literacies. The goal is to demonstrate the importance of situating digital literacies, and writing more generally, within specific cultural, material, educational, and familial contexts that influence and are influenced by their acquisition and development. The chapter offers two case studies of digital literacy acquisition: one focusing on a young man from Nigeria and the other on a young man from China. The chapter recognizes the importance of future research that focuses on the global digital divide but that also examines more substantively the role that language and education, among other factors, play in shoring up or detracting from people's acquisition and development of digital literacies. Keywords: China; digital divide; digital literacies; Nigeria
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