Multiliteracies for a digital age
By: Stuart A. Selber.
Series: Studies in writing & rhetoric
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Data processing.; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Data processing.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Computer-assisted instruction.; Report writing -- Computer-assisted instruction.; Computer literacy.
Description: "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"...BOOK JACKET.

The result is a rich portrait of the ideal multiliterate student in a digital age and a social approach to computer literacy envisioned with the requirements for systemic change in mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reimagining computer literacy; title: Functional literacy: computers as tools, students as effective users of technology; title: Critical literacy: computers as cultural artifacts, students as informed questioners of technology; title: Rhetorical literacy: computers as hypertextual media, students as reflective producers of technology; title: Systemic requirements for change.