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Author: Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole
The Psychology of Literacy (Harvard, 1981; iUniverse.com, 1999)
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A fundamental question in media studies is the extent to which communications technology affects human thought and institutions. This was MarshallMcLuhan's grand theme. ... ... Based on research conducted in Africa, the book is a fairly technical controlled-experiment study of how different forms of literacy influence the development of various cognitive skills. Scribner and Cole show that under different social conditions, the same hardwarein this case, paper-and-pencil literacycan have very different consequences for human cognition. Technology matters, but, after Scribner and Cole, old-fashioned technological determinism should be dead.
A fundamental question in media studies is the extent to which communications technology affects human thought and institutions. This was MarshallMcLuhan's grand theme. ... ... Based on research conducted in Africa, the book is a fairly technical controlled-experiment study of how different forms of literacy influence the development of various cognitive skills. Scribner and Cole show that under different social conditions, the same hardware
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