With the Internet creating an environment for global communication, the way that information is created, exchanged and used has changed dramatically in the late 20th century. This text provides a critical examination of literacy practices on the World Wide Web, including the authoring, designing, reading, analyzing, and interpreting of texts. The international contributors challenge the premise that the Web forms a global literacy environment in which people from all over the world communicate with one another without being affected by the significant barriers posed by geopolitical location,...
With the Internet creating an environment for global communication, the way that information is created, exchanged and used has changed dramatically i...
The World Wide Web is transforming the way that information is distributed, received and acted upon. Global Literacies and the World Wide Web provides a critical examination of the new on line literacy practices and values, and how these are determined by national, cultural and educational contexts. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe have brought together scholars from around the world, including: Mexico, Hungary, Australia, Palau, Cuba, Scotland, Greece, Japan, Africa and the United States. Each represents and examines on line literacy practices in their specific...
The World Wide Web is transforming the way that information is distributed, received and acted upon. Global Literacies and the World Wide Web
This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher employ these stories to begin tracing technological literacy as it has emerged over the last few decades within the United States. They selected 20 case studies from the corpus of more than 350 people who participated in interviews or completed a technological literacy questionnaire during six years of their study. The book is organized into seven chapters that follow the 20 participants in their efforts to acquire...
This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia ...
This book reports the authors' research in electronic literacy, chronicling the development of electronic literacies through stories of several individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. The goal is to begin tracing technological literacy as it has emerged over the last few decades within the United States. The authors selected 20 case studies from the larger corpus of more than 350 people who participated in interviews or completed a technological literacy questionnaire during the past five or six years. The participants were recruited primarily through school settings, calling first...
This book reports the authors' research in electronic literacy, chronicling the development of electronic literacies through stories of several indivi...
This book is a history composed of histories. Its particular focus is the way in which computers entered and changed the field of composition studies, a field that defines itself both as a research community and as a community of teachers. This may have a somewhat sinister suggestion that technology alone has agency, but this history (made of histories) is not principally about computers. It is about people-the teachers and scholars who have adapted the computer to their personal and professional purposes. From the authors' perspectives, change in technology drives changes in the ways we...
This book is a history composed of histories. Its particular focus is the way in which computers entered and changed the field of composition studi...
