Page to Screen

Hypertext, e-mail, word processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized textual practices. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What new literacy skills are needed and how do we teach them? Page to Screen collects some of the best contemporary thinkers in the field of technology and literacy. They analyze the potential of the new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual communication, new forms of rhetoric, learning in the age of global communication networks and new approaches to storytelling. Page to Screen is compelling reading for anyone interested in Literacy Education, Language Studies, English, Library Studies, Multimedia and Communication Studies. International contributors include Gunther Kress, Cynthia Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher and Colin Lankshear.

Ilana Snyder, Monash University

Chapter 1 Reflections On Computers and Composition Studies at the Century's End, Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe; Chapter 2 The Wired World of Second-Language Education, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Eileen Honan, Jane Crawford; Chapter 3 Visual and Verbal Modes of Representation in Electronically Mediated Communication: The Potentials of New Forms of Text, Gunther Kress; Chapter 4 The Rhetorics and Languages of Electronic Mail, Charles Moran, Gail E. Hawisher; Chapter 5 Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy, Nicholas C. Burbules; Chapter 6 Beyond the Hype: Reassessing Hypertext, Ilana Snyder; Chapter 7 Will the Most Reflexive Relativist Please Stand Up: Hypertext, Argument and Relativism, Jane Yellowlees Douglas; Chapter 8 New Stories for New Readers: Contour, Coherence and Constructive Hypertext, Michael Joyce; Chapter 9 Living On the Surface: Learning in the Age of Global Communication Networks, Johndan Johnson-Eilola; Chapter 10 Children, Computers and Life Online: Education in a Cyber-World, Richard Smith, Pamela Curtin; Chapter 11 Computer Games, Culture and Curriculum, Catherine Beavis;