This journal is intended to augment your understanding of this reading assignment. Answer the questions below to prompt your writing:
1. What kinds of abilities do Hawisher and Selfe think people need in order to be "literate" in a digital age?
2. What are Hawisher and Selfe trying to determine by collecting and studying examples of people's digital literacy narratives?
3. Which of the five themes (p. 644) do you think may inform your own technological literacy narrative? If you're not sure yet, which of the five themes stands out to you as particularly interesting?
Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology Gail E. Hawisher, Cynthia L. Selfe, Brittney Moraski and Melissa Pearson College Composition and Communication
Vol. 55, No. 4 (Jun., 2004), pp. 642-692
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4140666