When the samizdat includes digital video, which can be seamlessly altered and rearranged, the threat is only compounded. Some experts believe the next stage of the information revolution will be so cataclysmic that new forms of literacy will emerge. Several years ago, researchers at the Institute for Research on Learning, in California, found that when students from a poor neighborhood in East Palo Alto were given video editing tools, they could tell stories about their lives that they never would have been able to express in words. We're moving toward a new literacy. The typewriter shaped our current view of literacy.
Television is for a passive audience.
Digital video, with vast possibilities for manipulating images, exercises the mind.