Texts:

Eisenstein, Elizabeth.  The Printing Revolution in Early Modern EuropeOxford; Oxford UP, 1993. 

Baron, NaomiAlphabet to Email.

Hawisher, Gail, and Cynthia Selfe. Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1997.

 

 

 

And… how do the issues arising from the use of literate technologies raise questions of morality and ethics--either now or in the past? 

 

 

 

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?

 

 

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:

 

 

 

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

 

 

ENG/SRP 439

Literacy, Technology, and Society