From: Dr. Steve Eskow <drseskow@cox.net>
<<Media is the fourth R for arts. Text may remain important much as did latin for higher education.>>
This has become the new conventional wisdom, widely circulated and believed by "digital natives" and those who believe that the natives are a new breed with new nervous systems, visual learners, multitaskers, and so on. That is: text is the new Latin, a concern of mandarins and antiquarians, the world itself to be organized and run by the imagists and the visualists.
I think there's a common presumption, on the part of many, that this hasn't always-already been a problem that scholarship has tried to address. For a relatively recent riff on it (the problem, not the presumption..), I suggest this coverweb from Kairos: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/coverweb/wide/index.html Literacy and medium concerns are a very, very old problem. --e