Contents: G.E. Hawisher, C.L. Selfe, Introduction: Literate Lives in the Information Age. D.J. Davis, G.E. Hawisher, S.A. Osborne, C.L. Selfe, J.R. Van Wormer, Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology. P. Boyd, G.E. Hawisher, K. Lunsford, M. Sheridan-Rabideau, C.L. Selfe, Privileging--or Not--the Literacies of Technology. C.L. Selfe, G.E. Hawisher, D. Woodbeck, D. Walikainen, Complicating Access: Gateways to the Literacies of Technology. G.E. Hawisher, T.A. Lugo, M. Pearson, C.L. Selfe, Shaping Cultures: Prizing the Literacies of Technology. A.N. Brown, G.E. Hawisher, C.L. Selfe, Those Who Share: Three Generations of Black Women. J.P. Blakelock, J.M. Burges, G.E. Hawisher, C.L. Selfe, J.R. Walker, Inspiring Women: Social Movements and the Literacies of Technology. D. DeVoss, G.E. Hawisher, C. Jackson, J. Johansen, B. Moraski, C.L. Selfe, The Future of Literacy. C.L. Selfe, G.E. Hawisher, Conclusion: Stories From the United States in the Information Age. Appendix.
Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher
"This book documents a critical period in the history of literacy.
It is rife with glimpses into the transformations of reading and
writing at the millennium. From the family sitting around a
telephone jack playing Star Trek on an Air Force simulation
computer to the third grader with an e-mail account, the authors
show us the sometimes wacky and sometimes sobering 'technology
gateways' that mark conditions of access to literacy in these
times."
—Deborah Brandt
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison"The
'literate lives' we read about here are not set wholly within
familiar sites for literacy, such as schools of libraries, nor do
they derive entirely from formal learning. Instead, they reflect
the lived experience of unique individuals, who weave their own
versions of literacy through the pains and joys of everyday life.
Telling their life stories around literate practices, they show how
they construct a literate life on the substrates of race, class,
and gender, and develop it in terms of their role in economic,
technological, and political history.
Each unique life history in this book is a fascinating story by
itself with elements as diverse as working on a committee,
listening to music, playing video games, going to a prom, or
protesting a war. The attention to these concrete details makes the
cases come alive and shows not only the particular construction of
a literate life, but the way it emerges out of ordinary experience.
This attention to the particulars is in the final analysis what
reveals the interconnectedness of the larger social forces and the
distinctive way that these forces play out within the situated
realities of life."
—Bertram (Chip) Bruce
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois"Selfe and Hawisher's Book provides an incredibly rich and
detailed amount of information about the development and
acquisition of literacy and digital literacies by individuals and
the contexts that assisted or constrained their
achievements...Their book challenges some of the long-held beliefs
about the intersection between the acquisition of digital
literacies and race, class, ethnicity, and gender and demonstrates
a far more complex relationship that others have presented."
--Katina Zammit, School of Education, University of Western Sydney,
Australia, Journal of Literacy Research
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