Mattie Bruton Digital Literacy and OA Digital literacy issues and open access issues are often depicted as rather distant from each other in the disciplinary geography of computers and writing. Digital literacy is often associated with issues of the cultural and the pedagogical while Open Access with technical and legal issues. But these two topics are actually connected by many of the same concerns and anxieties. Furthermore, the future of Open Access has powerful implications for the future of digital literacy. In his influential 1991 essay “Literacy and the Discourse of Crisis,” John Trimbur writes: “[T]he rhetorical power of the phrase ‘literacy crisis’ resides in its ability to condense a broad range of cultural, social, political, and economic tensions into one central image.” (Qtd in Lewis, “Introduction,” Strategic Discourse ). Since then, anxieties surrounding technology's effect on literacy practices have continued to emerge, keeping pace with the rapid adv...
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