Bøker av Cynthia L. Selfe

This book is a history composed of histories. From the authors' perspectives, change in technology drives changes in the ways we live and work, and we, agents to a degree in control of our own lives, use technology to achieve our human purposes.

Reporting the emergence of technological literacy in the US, this study chronicles the stories of several individuals in their efforts to acquire varying degrees of such literacy. It situates their accounts in the cultural ecology of the time, tracing factors and trends that may have influenced or been influenced by literacy practices and values.

Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, this work explores the complex linkage between technology and literacy that has come to characterize American culture and its public educational system at the end of the 20th century.