Voices from the Margins: Literacy Development and the Impact of Technology

Abstract

Have you ever thought how you became literate? What influences-social, historical , political, technological-surrounded you and had an impact? What about how you came to be computer literate (or perhaps you do not consider yourself in this category)? What these books by Inman, and Selfe and Hawisher, bring to the area of technology and literacy instruction and composition studies is the human voices, the recognition that obtaining effective technological literacy is a complex web of interacting forces. They recognize that acquiring technological literacies-"liter-acy" in today's society-and associated practices cannot be described in a simple single cause-single effect way.