Overview

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 a screen and transmitted through a global network of computers. The book covers topics as diverse as role-playing in computer games, the use of graphic symbols in on-screen texts and Internet degree programmes to reveal that being literate is to do with understanding how different modalities combine to create meaning.

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Author:   Ilana Snyder
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780415276672

ISBN 10:   0415276675
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   28 March 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

'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

An invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of new literacies and the consequences for education.. <br>-Chip Bruce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <br> This wide ranging discussion of digital literacies in a fast changing global world is essential for anyone interested in literacy and learning in or out of school. <br>-James Paul Gee, University of Wisconsin at Madison <br>

'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 'This compilation will appeal to teachers working in IT, educational theorists, students and teachers of media studies, and anyone interested in the educational implications of The New Media Age.' 'Silicon Literacies offers an interesting and useful number of articles.' - Rocky Mountain Review '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

Author Information

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

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