Texts:
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Oxford; Oxford UP, 1993.
Baron, Naomi. Alphabet to Email.
Hawisher, Gail, and Cynthia Selfe. Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice,
1997.
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And… how do the issues arising from the use of literate
technologies raise questions of morality and ethics--either now or in the
past?
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How do technologies shape literacy through history?
How do literate technologies empower cultures? How
will they affect future literacy? What are the ethical
considerations of digital technology?
How will “cyborgism” affect human interaction and culture? How does digital technology affect the
mission of a school like Creighton?
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how it will shape our
future as well. This Senior Perspective course will ask you to explore the
ways that literacy, technology, and humanity interact. You will look at the
ways that each of these entities affects the others. The course will begin
with a historical look at human technological literacy, but the majority of
the course will focus on present literacy and technology. Major questions:
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It's entirely appropriate that at the beginning of the millennium
we take a look at the explosive growth in technology and how it has shaped
our literate past, and
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ENG/SRP 439
Literacy, Technology,
and Society
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