Working Effectively Online - A Text-based Approach to Developing Online LiteracyChris Corbel, Manager, Computer Literacy Centre, AMES Victoria. AbstractFor many critics of print literacy the promise of escape from the confines of print lies with three computer-mediated technologies - hypertext, networks and multimedia. Other commentators are concerned about the effect of these technologies on established print literacy skills. Using examples from Office 97, this paper will show how advanced the normalisation of these technologies has become in the business mainstream, and will discuss the implications for online literacy, which, in Tuman's terms "..is likely to entail a radical re-working of all the most basic terms and practices of our recent print-based past..". (Tuman, M. 1996 Literacy Online. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Volume 16) |
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