Global Literacies and the World Wide Web

<p>The World Wide Web is transforming the way that information is distributed received and acted upon.<br><em>Global Literacies and the World Wide Web</em> provides a critical examination of the new on line literacy practices and values and how these are determined by national cultural and educational contexts. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe have brought together scholars from around the world including: Mexico Hungary Australia Palau Cuba Scotland Greece Japan Africa and the United States. Each represents and examines on line literacy practices in their specific culture.<br><em>Global Literacies and the World Wide Web</em> resists a romanticised and inaccurate vision of global oneness. Instead this book celebrates the dynamic capacity of these new self defined literacy communities to challenge the global village myth with robust hybrid redefintions of identity that honour ethnic cultural economic historical and ideological differences. This is a lively and original challenge to conventional notions of the relationship between literacy and technology.</p>