Welcome to the blog for the class Introduction to Digital Literacies at Ball State University. This Fall we will be exploring the ways our reading, writing, and engaging with texts of all kinds have migrated to a digital, networked, and world-wide environment. We’ll be looking both at focused issues of page and screen design in common composing tools, as well as taking a larger view of how our human interactions in all fields are changing, with great implications for us as individuals and groups, and for our culture as a whole.
One of the early thinkers who articulated the impact of electric/electronic media was Marshall McLuhan. He wrote in The Medium is the Massage that young people in the 1960’s were finished with rules and craved roles to play in the unfolding drama of cultural change. It may also be that the old rules of our communication practices have changed, and that we need to discover what roles rhetoric can and should play today. Follow us as we consider these issues from many points of view.
Blogs from prior semesters' Digital Literacies' classes can be found below
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
