1st Edition

Silicon Literacies Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age

Edited By Ilana Snyder Copyright 2002
208 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Electronic communication is radically altering literacy practices. Silicon Literacies unravels the key features of the new communication order to explore the social, cultural and educational impact of silicon literacy practices. Written by leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine the implications of text produced on a keyboard, visible on... Read more
List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Silicon Literacies Ilana Snyder Part I Online literacy and rhetorical practices 1. What am I bid? Reading, writing and ratings at eBay.com Netgrrl [star symbo] (12) and Chicoboy26 [filled in star symbol] 932) 2. Writing the visual: the use of graphic symbols in onscreen texts Chris Abbott 3. Reading, writing and role-playing computer games Catherine Beavis 4. Languages.com: the Internet and linguistics pluralism Mark Warschauer 5. The Web as a rhetorical place Nicholas C. Burbules 6. Then again who isn't: post-hypertextual rhetorics Michael Joyce Part II Teaching, learning, technology and innovation 7. Educational innovation and hypertext: one university's successes and failures in supporting new technology George P. Landow 8. Here even when you're not: teaching in an Internet degree programme J. Yellowlees Douglas 9. Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies Chris Bigum 10. Technology, learning and visual culture Ron Burnett 11. Technological revolution, multiple literacies, and the restructuring of education Dougles M. Kellner Conclusion Communication, imagination, critique - literacy education for the electronic age Ilana Snyder Index

Biography

Ilana Snyder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

'Make[s] important and challenging contributions to the field of literacy-technology studies...If literacy education is to enter a new era in response to changing literacies associated with digital technologies, the field needs more books like [this].' - Helen Nixon, Discourse