Multiliteracies for a Digital Age

Stuart A. Selber

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Language: English

Published by Turpin DEDS Orphans Feb 2004, 2004

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Neuware - 'Multiliteracies for a Digital Age serves as a guide for composition teachers to develop effective, full-scale computer literacy programs that are also professionally responsible by emphasizing different kinds of literacies. Stuart A. Selber also proposes methods for helping students move among these literacies in strategic ways. Defining computer literacy as a domain of writing and communication, Selber addresses the questions that few authors of other computer literacy texts consider: What should a computer literate student be able to do What is required of literacy teachers to educate such a student How can functional computer literacy fit within the values of teaching writing and communication as a profession Reimagining functional literacy in ways that speak to teachers of writing and communication, he builds a framework for computer literacy instruction that blends functional, critical, and rhetorical concerns in the interest of social action and change. 'Multiliteracies for a Digital Age reviews the extensive literature on computer literacy and critiques it from a humanistic perspective. This approach, which will remain useful as new versions of computer hardware and software inevitably replace old versions, helps to usher students into an understanding of the biases, belief systems, and politics inherent in technological contexts. Selber redefines rhetoric at the nexus of technology and literacy and argues that students should be prepared as authors of twenty-first-century texts that defy the established purview of English departments. The result is a rich portrait of the ideal multiliterate student in a digital age and a social approach to computer literacy envisioned withthe requirements for systemic change in mind. …

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Title
Multiliteracies for a Digital Age
Author
Stuart A. Selber
Publisher
Turpin DEDS Orphans Feb 2004
Publication year
2004
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Language
English
ISBN 10
0809325519
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9780809325511
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340 grams
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216 x 140 x 19 mm

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