Course:TSED508 DigitalLit/Questions

Questions

Possible questions for a video interview (quotes from Dobson, T.& Willinsky, J.(2007). Digital literacy. In Cambridge Handbook on Literacy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK:

1. "Haas’s finding that word processing led to less conceptual planning in the act of writing among both college students and experienced writers (1989)" (p.3).
2. "...we must concede that hypermedia extends in significant ways our notions of textuality and literacy" (p. 5).
3. "The hypermedia tool appeared to facilitate the activity because it enabled a number of modes of visual comparison not supported in the print context" (p. 6).
4. "Hayles (2003), however, cautions against judging e-literature, which is still in the incunabular phase, against the standard set by print genres developed over half a millennium. A more appropriate course of action would be to develop models of reading and aesthetic response that account for the diversity of contemporary literature, both print and digital" (p. 9).
5. "We can also find many examples of primarily oral societies that have produced sophisticated written works. It is not inconceivable, therefore, that increasing reliance on digital modes of communication and the linguistic shifts that such reliance promotes might eventually result in “print culture sans print” or even “print sans print culture” (Baron, 2005a, pp. 28, 29)" (p. 11).
6. "Street (1984) has likewise advocated for viewing literacy as a social practice rather than as acquisition and employment of a particular skill set" (p. 15).
7. "Digital literacy, therefore, assumes visual literacy and entails both the ability to comprehend what is represented and the ability to comprehend the internal logics and encoding schemes of that representation (cf. Dobson, 2005)" (p. 16).
8. "Alexander observes that much social software is “predicated on microcontent”; in the case of weblogs, for example, the unit of import is the “post” not the “page.” This altered rhetoric, he suggests, has “helped shape a different audience, the blogging public, with its emergent social practices of blogrolling, extensive hyperlinking, and discussion threads attached not to pages but to content chunks within them” (2006, p. 33)" (p. 20).
9. "These meta-pages make up about a quarter of the site’s content and speak to yet another educational aspect of this collaborative digital literacy (Schiff, 2006, p.41)" (p.20).
10. "...setting digital literacy’s anarchy and ephemeral nature against print literacy’s orthodoxy and authority has become a late-twentieth century perspective" P. 22).