Literacy In the New Media Age (1-34)

Although this reading was slightly confusing, I was able to decipher a few points that interested me. First off, the author seemed to understand the importance of language and its use in writing, but he seemed to think that books and other written texts would soon be totally overshadowed by digital texts. For example, he seems to think that books will become unimportant as the digital era continues to grow. People now seem to focus their learning on how to communicate on the computer, etc, rather than on paper.

I guess you could relate this to the idea of "literacy" as we have discussed in class. The author would most likely support the idea that literacy is now becoming a more broad term, because it now has to include literacy of the "digital means" rather than just reading and writing.

This reading was very in depth but hopefully I will have a more clear response after our class discussion of this material.