Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era

Name: Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era
ISBN: 9780415174640

ISBN-10: 0415174643

ISBN-13: 9780415174640

Hypertext, e-mail, word processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized textual practices. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What new literacy skills are needed and how do we teach them?Page to Screen collects some of the best contemporary thinkers in the field of technology and literacy. They analyze the potential of the new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual communication, new forms of rhetoric, learning in the age of global communication networks and new approaches to storytelling.Page to Screen is compelling reading for anyone interested in Literacy Education, Language Studies, English, Library Studies, Multimedia and Communication Studies.International contributors include Gunther Kress, Cynthia Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher and Colin Lankshear. Booknews Not about filming novels, but how literacy and the teaching of it is being affected by the introduction of hypertext, email, word processing, and other electronic media. Addresses such concerns as how language on the screen works differently than on the page, what new literacy skills are needed and how they can be taught, the potential for new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual representation, new forms of rhetoric, learning inside global communications, and new approaches to storytelling. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsPage to ScreenSect. 1The spaces of electronic literacies11Reflections on computers and composition studies at the century's end32The wired world of second-language education20Sect. 2Emerging literacies513Visual and verbal modes of representation in electronically mediated communication: the potentials of new forms of text534The rhetorics and languages of electronic mail805Rhetorics of the Web: hyperreading and critical literacy102Sect. 3The problems and possibilities of hypertext1236Beyond the hype: reassessing hypertext1257Will the most reflexive relativist please stand up: hypertext, argument and relativism1448New stories for new readers: contour, coherence and constructive hypertext163Sect. 4Changing the cultures of teaching and learning1839Living on the surface: learning in the age of global communication networks18510Children, computers and life online: education in a cyber-world21111Computer games, culture and curriculum234Index256