Literacy and Computers

by Selfe, Cynthia L.; Hilligoss, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780873525800
• ISBN10: 0873525809
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Summary

Computers, this new collection of essays suggests, are transforming texts, language, and literacy itself. In easy-to-understand language, Literacy and Computers discusses computer-related issues within several larger contexts: the politics, social implications, and economics of literacy education; the roles of authors and readers; the nature of interpretation and subjectivity; and the ways in which human beings construct meaning. The first three parts of the volume examine -- how computers have become part of the classroom -- how electronic networks function as tools for reading, writing, and interpreting texts -- how hypertext, a specialized genre of computer programs, relates to traditional notions of text The fourth part pulls together the multiple voices of the previous contributions and urges readers to venture beyond early studies of computers in composition classrooms. Addressed to novice and expert computer users alike, Literacy and Computers describes the possibilities -- and the difficulties -- posed by the new technologies.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Cynthia L. Selfe
Susan Hilligoss
PART I: Changing the Contexts of Literacy Instruction
Overview
Reading, Writing, and Thinking in an Age of Electronic Literacy	11	(11)
William Costanzo
The Politics of Literacy and Technology in Secondary School Classrooms	22	(15)
Paul J. LeBlanc
Blinding Insights: Classification Schemes and Software for Literacy Instruction	37	(19)
Gail E. Hawisher
Interpreting the Discourses of Technology	56	(57)
Ellen L. Barton
Response
Literacy, Technology, and Teacher Education	76	(13)
Jane Zeni
PART II: Extending Literacy through Computer Networks
Overview
Reading and Writing on Computer Networks as Social Construction and Social Interaction	89	(24)
Ann Hill Duin
Craig Hansen
Telecommunications Networks: Expanding the Contexts for Literacy	113	(17)
Betsy A. Bowen
Literacy, Collaboration, and Technology: New Connections and Challenges	130	(14)
Janis Forman
The Effect of Secondary School Structures and Traditions on Computer-Supported Literacy	144	(13)
Gary Graves
Carl Haller
Humanist Scholars' Use of Computers in Libraries and Writing	157	(14)
William Goodrich Jones
Communication and Technology: Defining a Feminist Presence in Research and Practice	171	(49)
Billie J. Wahlstrom
Response
The Challenges of Creating Networked Connections among Teachers and Students	186	(9)
William Wresch
PART III: Expanding the Definitions of Computer-Based Literacy
Overview
Reading and Writing in Hypertext: Vertigo and Euphoria	195	(25)
Johndan Johnson-Eilola
They Became What They Beheld: The Futility of Resistance in the Space of Electronic Writing	220	(18)
Stuart Moulthrop
Nancy Kaplan
The Effect of Hypertext on Processes of Reading and Writing	238	(26)
Davida Charney
Hypertextual Thinking	264	(55)
Catherine F. Smith
First Response
Literature, Student-Centered Classrooms, and Hypermedia Environments	282	(23)
L. M. Dryden
Second Response
Hype and Hypertext	305	(14)
David N. Dobrin
PART IV: Broadening Our Views of Literacy and Computers
Writing the Technology That Writes Us: Research on Literacy and the Shape of Technology	319	(60)
Christina Haas
Christine M. Neuwirth
Conclusion
Studying Literacy with Computers	336	(5)
Susan Hilligoss
Cynthia L. Selfe
Notes on Contributors	341	(5)
Works Cited
Books and Articles	346	(31)
Computer Software	377	(2)
Index	379