An Overview of Technology in Society: An Introduction to Technoliteracy

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Author(s): Amanda Walker (Tasmanian Department of Education, Australia), Bridgette Huddlestone (Tasmanian Department of Education, Australia)and Darren Lee Pullen (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 19
Source title: Technoliteracy, Discourse, and Social Practice: Frameworks and Applications in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Darren Lee Pullen (University of Tasmania, Australia), Christina Gitsaki (University of Queensland, Australia)and Margaret Baguley (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-842-0.ch001

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Library & Information Science

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Being literate is vital for learning and working, possibly more so in the digital age than in the industrial age, given society’s reliance on digital technologies. Individual and societal reliance on technology has in turn created problems and opportunities. The associated problems concern who has access to what forms of technology and when and how it is used. The opportunities centre on the interconnectedness of digital technologies, which ultimately transform how and when we communicate. When technology and communication are joined together they form another literacy commonly referred to as technoliteracy. This chapter will provide a brief overview of some of the ways in which literacy and technology interconnect and will provide the reader with sufficient understanding of the field to enable them to grasp some of the more theoretical and practical applications of technoliteracy discussed in the following chapters.

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