E-communication radically transforms literacy practices. Silicon Literacies reveals the main features of the new communication system to explore the social, cultural and educational impact of silicon literacy practices.

By leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, articles in this group are studying the effects of text produced on the keyboard. Visible on screen and transmitted over a global network of computers.

The book covers topics such as role playing in computer games, the use of graphic symbols in text on the screen and Internet degree programs to reveal that literacy is about understanding how to combine different ways to create meaning. Writing is only part of what people need to learn to be literate, and contributors are enhancing our understanding of the ways in which new technologies affect, and sometimes change, literacy practices..

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