Response to Literacy in the New Media Age (1-34)

In summarizing the selection of text from Literacy in the New Media Age, I would say that it is basically explaining how the medium of book is being replaced by the medium of screen, which is a shorthand term for new communication and information technologies. Also, the mode of writing is changing to the mode of image which means when an image is placed with text; the image is now vastly more important than the text. Transformations in mediums and modes is because of social, economical, communicational, and technological changes. Since messages are now being transmitted by images, the definition of the word literacy should change accordingly to accommodate this idea. Though books and writing are being taken over by others forms, they will always be present because they offer something unique that can't ever truly be replaced the the scree, music, images, soundtracks, etc.