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    <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Reading in the future: Literacy in the time of the internet</h1>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Cole, D.R.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Reading in the future: Literacy in the time of the internet.</xhtml:em> Reconstruction, 5 (2). ISSN 1547-4348</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_3063' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2377/1/cole.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_3063' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_3063"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2377/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2377/1/cole.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />69Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://reconstruction.eserver.org/052/cole.shtml">http://reconstruction.eserver.org/052/cole.shtml</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">David R. Cole’s “Reading in the Future: Literacy and the Time of the Internet” locates the literacies of the internet – itself read as “the end game of western technology” or the Machina Mundi, the Great Chain of the World that has a centre that is everywhere and a circumference that is nowhere – in a contradictory space. But Cole also self-consciously locates his own writing at a moment in time when the initial technological hype of the internet is subsiding in the face of the boredom of informational overload and the internet is emerging as both an “unlimited realm of resource” and the site of a brand of “western nihilism containing a sense of relativism, collapse of meaning and cultural schizo-cynicism”. Remarkably, in the course of his argument, Coles does not appropriate the internet, does not simplify it according to his own vision of its potential or mission – but allows it to remain a place of cultural schizophrenia, to be navigated only by means of the corresponding learning, acceptance, and practice of “schizo literacy”.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/280199.html">280000 Information, Computing and Communication Sciences &gt; 280100 Information Systems &gt; 280199 Information Systems not elsewhere classified</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/330107.html">330000 Education &gt; 330100 Education Studies &gt; 330107 Educational Technology and Media</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/330201.html">330000 Education &gt; 330200 Curriculum Studies &gt; 330201 Curriculum Studies - English Education</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420199.html">420000 Language and Culture &gt; 420100 Language Studies &gt; 420199 Language Studies not elsewhere classified</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420399.html">420000 Language and Culture &gt; 420300 Cultural Studies &gt; 420399 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2377</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">DR David R. Cole</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">08 Nov 2007 14:06</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2377;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=2377">item control page</a></p>
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