Discusses how changes in the technology of text, specifically a shift in the medium of presentation from paper to screen, will invariably trigger changes in the shape of the text. Utilizes a text analytical approach to identify nine dimensions of the key differences between paper and on-screen text. (HB)

This paper argues that English text-based literacy skills (as opposed to nontext forms of communication such as audio-visual and American Sign Language) are necessary for people with deafness to succeed in the current technological, information-intensive society. (DB)

To analyze the appropriateness of textual media in the construction of meaning, this paper first provides a review of the psychological research on semiotics and multiple intelligences that supports a broadened notion of text. The paper next reports on preliminary research on the construction of non-print texts in disciplines other than…

Revealing something of the vast changes in intellectual life that are likely to follow the rapid expansion in the power and availability of computers, the essays in this book represent a serious effort to redefine the parameters of literacy debates of the 1980s. Discussions at the end of each of the five sections of the book represent an attempt…