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Literacy, Culture and Difference on the Web
As Hawisher and Selfe explain, this part “offers three chapters that explore Web literacy practices as they have come to be constituted within specific cultural, historical, and economic contexts. These chapters demonstrate the particular embeddedness of reading and writing as sociocultural activities, and taken as an ensemble, they suggest that the landscape of the Internet and the Web is far from the promised global village. Rather, they indicate, cyberspace is a culturally interested geography, one designed in ways that differentially supports various peoples and groups around the globe, both in their literacy practices and values” (10-11).