Laura Smith Questions 7/3

1) In Selfe's article, published in 1999, she calls for the need for English departments and teachers to seriously address technology as a new platform for literacy that is quickly taking on complicated social, political, and economic status. In the nineteen years since this article, how have we seen education surrounding technology and literacy develop? To what extent are the issues with access still present? In what ways are English departments succeeding or failing in critically assessing technology as a new facet of literacy, culture, and society?

2) In Arola's analysis of Web 2.0, she argues that it is mandatory to at least be critically aware of the ways in which design is also rhetoric. Since an increasing amount of composition happens on the Internet, do you think that coding proficiency will ultimately become a necessary aspect of composition courses?