Standpoints: A Call for New Research on New and Multi-Literacies.

In the last hour, I talked by mobile phone to a friend who was driving across another state while I Mapquested his location and gave him updates on his estimated time of arrival; wrote email back and forth to a former research participant who now lives in Mexico; re-watched the YouTube video, Shift Happens; sent my family notes describing my hotel room; watched the news on television; charged my IPod; and worked on this essay, using books I had lugged with me on my trip. Even for someone like me?someone who remembers a time before answering machines, who went to college toting an IBM Selectric (that is a typewriter, for those who did not)?new media play an important role in daily life. Being invited to write this essay, however, has drawn my attention to how I integrate both old and new literacies, as I use both old and new media on a daily basis. What is more, I have started to notice people between whom I am sandwiched on the spectrum of antiquity to newness, those who do much more than I with new media, and those who become mildly nauseous at the thought of having to sit in front of a computer screen.

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