REVIEW OF LITERATE LIVES IN THE INFORMATION AGE: NARRATIVES OF LITERACY FROM THE UNITED STATES Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the Unites States
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Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (henceforth, S&H) offers readers detailed narratives, which authors Selfe and Hawisher call "technological literacy autobiographies" (S&H, p. 7), on the development of technological literacy practices and values by twenty individuals. The goal of the volume is to examine how factors such as age, gender, ethnic and racial group, and geographical background interplay with historical, cultural, economic, and political factors to affect a person’s development (or lack thereof) of technological literacy in a society where such literacies are hailed as a necessity. Selfe and Hawisher refer to these factors as the "cultural ecology of literacy" (S&H, p. 5). Fully cognizant of the conflicting views on defining technological literacies, Selfe and Hawisher define their use of the term in their introduction as "the practices involved in reading, writing, and exchanging information in online environments, as well as the values associated with such practices—cultural, social, political, and educational" (S&H, p. 2, footnote 4).
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تاریخ انتشار 2004