Title

Privileging-or not-the literacies of technology

Authors

Paula Boyd
Gail E. Hawisher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Karen Lunsford
Mary Sheridan-Rabideau
Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

5-25-2004

Department

Department of Humanities

Abstract

For some women in this study, especially those who came of age at times and in cultural ecologies that favored conventionally determined social roles, gender and the related timing of key technology developments played an important role in shaping the acquisition and development of electronic literacy. To understand more precisely why some women considered this combination of social and historical factors so influential, this chapter features the stories of three women-Paula Boyd, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, and Karen Lunsford-and underscores their birth dates in the late 1960s as a time of great social unrest in the United States and as the dawn of second-wave feminism.

Publication Title

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy From the United States

Recommended Citation

Boyd, P., Hawisher, G., Lunsford, K., Sheridan-Rabideau, M., & Selfe, C. (2004). Privileging-or not-the literacies of technology. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy From the United States, 59-80. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781410610768
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