Scribner!

Scribner’s article, Literacy in Three Metaphors, is exactly how I feel about the new era of technology. Her argument that literacy on the web is neither good nor bad, but is rather a “new form of literacy all together” is spectacular. She decided to create her own side on this argument and instead of viewing it bad like Hedges and Carr, she believes the effects of literacy going on the web is mild but it is causing a new type of literacy. People are so use to literacy being on paper form and all of its’ traditional ways, that they are forgetting that everything eventually changes and most of the times, that change is always for the better.

                People have always been afraid of new things and new changes partly because it is unpredictable and unstable. They view something as, why fix it if it’s not broken. The newer generations of people have found out that even though it’s not broken, we can still add to it and make it even better than it ever was. Just because there is another way to read and access reading material doesn’t make it a bad thing. The internet has made it more convenient for readers to access and find all the information they need. Instead of subscribing to a newspaper article and having to pick it up and deal with all of its flimsiness, we are now able to read it on our computers and scroll to every page. Much easier on our part, but that doesn’t make the newspaper a less significant form of reading.