Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Brenston, Margaret. “Worlds Apart: Women, Men, and Technology.” Medias and Values, (Winter 1990).
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In “Worlds Apart,” Margaret Brenston argues that there is a serious gender divide when it comes to computer literacy involving men and women. Brenston explains that women prefer computers for more artistic meanings than men who wish to conquer the [...]

Lemke, J. L. “Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meaning and Media.” In Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World: A Critical Sourcebook. Carolyn Handa, ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2004.
In “Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meaning and Media,” J.L. Lemke argues that literacy must be defined within the genre in which it emerged in order to comprehend each of the [...]

Gee, James. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning Literacy. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
In What Video Games Have to Teach us About Learning Literacy, James Paul Gee argues that while video games are often seen as a waste of time for children, they can be an entertaining tool to increasing the literacy of [...]

Lankshear, Colin, Ilena Snyder and Bill Green. Teachers and TechnoLiteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin: 2000.
Lankshear, Snyder, and Green examine the impact of technology on literacy and learning using the 3D model as a holistic and culturally critical means of studying this trend in literacy. Asserting that literacy [...]

Labbo, Linda D., David Reinking, and Michael C. McKenna. “Technology and Literacy Education in the Next Century: Exploring the Connection Between Work and Schooling.” Peabody Journal of Education, 73.3-4 (1998): 273-289.
In “Technology and Literacy Education in the Next Century.” the authors argue that technological literacy should be incorporated into the classroom as a standard in [...]