Ilana Snyder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

'Make[s] important and challenging contributions to the field of literacy-technology studies...If literacy education is to enter a new era in response to changing literacies associated with digital technologies, the field needs more books like [this].' - Helen Nixon, Discourse'This compilation will appeal to teachers working in IT, educational theorists, students and teachers of media studies, and anyone interested in the educational implications of The New Media Age.''Silicon Literacies offers an interesting and useful number of articles.' - Rocky Mountain Review

• List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Silicon Literacies Ilana Snyder Part I Online literacy and rhetorical practices 1. What am I bid? Reading, writing and ratings at eBay.com Netgrrl [star symbo] (12) and Chicoboy26 [filled in star symbol] 932) 2. Writing the visual: the use of graphic symbols in onscreen texts Chris Abbott 3. Reading, writing and role-playing computer games Catherine Beavis 4. Languages.com: the Internet and linguistics pluralism Mark Warschauer 5. The Web as a rhetorical place Nicholas C. Burbules 6. Then again who isn't: post-hypertextual rhetorics Michael Joyce Part II Teaching, learning, technology and innovation 7. Educational innovation and hypertext: one university's successes and failures in supporting new technology George P. Landow 8. Here even when you're not: teaching in an Internet degree programme J. Yellowlees Douglas 9. Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies Chris Bigum 10. Technology, learning and visual culture Ron Burnett 11. Technological revolution, multiple literacies, and the restructuring of education Dougles M. Kellner Conclusion Communication, imagination, critique - literacy education for the electronic age Ilana Snyder Index

Ilana Snyder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

'Make[s] important and challenging contributions to the field of literacy-technology studies...If literacy education is to enter a new era in response to changing literacies associated with digital technologies, the field needs more books like [this].' - Helen Nixon, Discourse'This compilation will appeal to teachers working in IT, educational theorists, students and teachers of media studies, and anyone interested in the educational implications of The New Media Age.''Silicon Literacies offers an interesting and useful number of articles.' - Rocky Mountain Review

• List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Silicon Literacies Ilana Snyder Part I Online literacy and rhetorical practices 1. What am I bid? Reading, writing and ratings at eBay.com Netgrrl [star symbo] (12) and Chicoboy26 [filled in star symbol] 932) 2. Writing the visual: the use of graphic symbols in onscreen texts Chris Abbott 3. Reading, writing and role-playing computer games Catherine Beavis 4. Languages.com: the Internet and linguistics pluralism Mark Warschauer 5. The Web as a rhetorical place Nicholas C. Burbules 6. Then again who isn't: post-hypertextual rhetorics Michael Joyce Part II Teaching, learning, technology and innovation 7. Educational innovation and hypertext: one university's successes and failures in supporting new technology George P. Landow 8. Here even when you're not: teaching in an Internet degree programme J. Yellowlees Douglas 9. Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies Chris Bigum 10. Technology, learning and visual culture Ron Burnett 11. Technological revolution, multiple literacies, and the restructuring of education Dougles M. Kellner Conclusion Communication, imagination, critique - literacy education for the electronic age Ilana Snyder Index

Ilana Snyder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.

'Make[s] important and challenging contributions to the field of literacy-technology studies...If literacy education is to enter a new era in response to changing literacies associated with digital technologies, the field needs more books like [this].' - Helen Nixon, Discourse'This compilation will appeal to teachers working in IT, educational theorists, students and teachers of media studies, and anyone interested in the educational implications of The New Media Age.''Silicon Literacies offers an interesting and useful number of articles.' - Rocky Mountain Review

• List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Silicon Literacies Ilana Snyder Part I Online literacy and rhetorical practices 1. What am I bid? Reading, writing and ratings at eBay.com Netgrrl [star symbo] (12) and Chicoboy26 [filled in star symbol] 932) 2. Writing the visual: the use of graphic symbols in onscreen texts Chris Abbott 3. Reading, writing and role-playing computer games Catherine Beavis 4. Languages.com: the Internet and linguistics pluralism Mark Warschauer 5. The Web as a rhetorical place Nicholas C. Burbules 6. Then again who isn't: post-hypertextual rhetorics Michael Joyce Part II Teaching, learning, technology and innovation 7. Educational innovation and hypertext: one university's successes and failures in supporting new technology George P. Landow 8. Here even when you're not: teaching in an Internet degree programme J. Yellowlees Douglas 9. Design sensibilities, schools and the new computing and communication technologies Chris Bigum 10. Technology, learning and visual culture Ron Burnett 11. Technological revolution, multiple literacies, and the restructuring of education Dougles M. Kellner Conclusion Communication, imagination, critique - literacy education for the electronic age Ilana Snyder Index