[Air-l] Technology and Literacy text

Alex Kuskis alex.kuskis at netscape.ca
Fri Apr 21 16:58:13 PDT 2006


You mean "The Medium is the Massage" (1967), an intentional pun on
the now famous aphorism that McLuhan introduced in "Understanding
Media" (1964). Actually, the story as I understand it is that this little
book was to be titled "The Medium is the Message", but the printer
made a spelling mistake in the page proofs, substituting "massage"
for "message". McLuhan liked the error so much because of its 
implication that media work us over that he opted to retain it. In any 
case, I don't really see this as a "technology and literacy text" except 
in the broadest possible terms. I think there have already been other 
good suggestions posted...........Alex Kuskis

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> Mark & Doug:
> 
> Consider using the seminal work by McLuhan & Fiore, The Medium Is The
> Message. It is a short and quck book but it was prophetic. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Mark Warschauer
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:04 AM
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> 
> Doug and others--thanks for your replies.  I am planning on using Gee's
> videogames book (cited by Doug below) and also my own book, Laptops and
> Literacy (coming out from Teachers College Press by the end of summer
> 2006, which covers use of computers in K-12 settings). 
> I want a third book that provides an overview of the relationship
> between technology and literacy, probably something similar to Ilana
> Snyder's edited books but if possible more up to date.
> 
> Thanks again--
> mark
> 
>>Mark,
>>
>>I'm wondering if you mean the use of technology to study literacies, 
>>technology-supported literate activities, or techno-literacies such as 
>>information literacy?
>>
>>Ilana Snyder has edited two collections that might be useful for a 
>>general "technology and literacy" course that hits each of these
> approaches:
>>
>>_Page to Screen; Taking Literacy into the Electronic Age_  (1997) and 
>>_Silicon Literacies; Communication, Innovation and Education in the 
>>Electronic Age_ (2002)
>>
>>Gunther Kress's _Literacy in the New Media Age_ (2002) would be 
>>appropriate for an advanced undergraduate course; he takes issue with 
>>applying the "literacy" label to processes other than reading and 
>>writing alphabetic texts, which is a key question for 
>>technology/literacy studies.
>>
>>For an accessible text that focuses primarily on gaming (and that can 
>>be used in a variety of interesting ways), there's Jim Gee's _What 
>>Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy_ (2004).
>>
>>Finally, Gail Hawisher and Cindy Selfe's _Literate Lives in the 
>>Information Age: Narratives on Literacy from the United States_ (2004).
>>
>>The above list of texts comes mostly from the fields of literacy 
>>studies and computers and writing.
>>
>>
>>Doug
>>
>>Douglas Eyman, Senior Co-Editor
>>Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 
>>htp://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
>>
>>Mark Warschauer wrote:
>>>  Can anybody recommend a text on Technology and Literacy to be used  
>>> for an undergraduate course on the topic to be taught in spring 2007?
>>>
>>>  Thanks--
>>>  Mark




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