Dear Air-ers - I was very interested in everyone's post on this topic, but I still think that there's only one text that has explained the capacity for language in a digital world - and sure, it's that ancient tome from Micheal Heim. Heim, Michael. (1987). Electric language: A philosophical study of word processing. New Haven, Yale University Press. It's not a text to give anyone, but I'm aware that the scholars of rhetoric among us have read it as part of the 'canon' and know how well it explains the core of what literacy is and how it mutates when it becomes digital (electric). Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, Ph.D. submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html