Reading this passage was a little confusing. I found his definition of literacy--"term to use when we make messages using letters as the means of recording that message"--very different from the definitions we developed in class. He excludes other types of familiarity with media as types of "literacy" since literacy includes the idea of language. He defines language specifically as the use of the alphabet. He talks about the different use of the alphabet when combined with images or screens.
I thought it was really interesting that the world "literacy" doesn't exist in many languages--that it is unique to our social context. Why do other societies not include the idea of literacy when it comes to digital media?
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