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the term literacy to mean the activities involved in interacting with text, namely reading, writing, and spelling

"literacy has become a deictic term; its meaning is continually changing, dependent upon the technological context in which it occurs"

literacy is in that "it is used to create identity"

The Internet is quickly becoming the most prominent form of textual interaction in the world, and using it demands a new set of skills

the Internet possesses an ideology and social influence that changes the way in which text is perceived

Dudfield claims that reading and writing have become interactive events, not simple absorption or recital, and that different characteristics and types of literacy activities have developed on the Internet: Reflective Writing: The electronic medium allows opportunities for reflection and refining thought before making words public.   Community Participation: Participants achieve a sense of belonging and use language to "exist," to have a voice.   Interdiscursivity: Texts can be preprogrammed, prewritten, or produced synchronously; innovative discourse types.   Identity Construction: Potential for multiple "selfs" and to exist in ways not possible in the "real world."   Reader-Writer State of Flux: Participants are in an ongoing process of reading what others have written or are writing, and writing their own contributions.   Reader Subjectivity: Users are in positions of expertise and control and are coauthors of the texts in which they participate.   Command-driven Texts: Commands are used for moving within the environment and for manipulating and programming objects.

With new literature being developed on the internet, using techniques unavailable in traditional literature, the internet cannot help but be a powerful force in transforming literacy.

the entire history of literacy has been dependent on the technical advances that it has used

there is an unprecedented amount of reading material available

hypertext is positive and liberating, perhaps encouraging more creative and meaningful literary works

hypertext allows the reader to interact with the story, deciding what order events occur in, and, possibly what plotlines are followed. If there are multiple plots, some might even be ignored completely. As opposed to traditional methods of reading and writing, hypertext gives the reader some degree of control over what they are reading

Overlapping both these areas is interactive literacy, where the reader becomes a participant

The act of reading is beginning to include the understanding of multimedia presentations, as opposed to text alone, and reading seems to be moving from a more passive experience of viewing and processing information to a more active role where the reader actually interacts with what they are reading, possibly changing it in the process

Traditional reading and writing are but the initial layers of the richer and more complex forms of literacy required in this electronic context

the internet's popularity may attract a larger audience to works of literature

being literate is quickly changing from an end state to an endless developmental process" and that literacy on the Internet "will require new forms of critical thinking and reasoning about the information that appears in this venue.