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Selfe asserts that composition teachers are wary of teaching new media because "they have already invested so heavily in writing, writing instruction, and writing programs--and because we have achieved some status as practitioners of writing" and that learning new media "may also force us to acknowledge the gap in our own literacy sets" (71-72). I have to wonder if this is something people actually feel? I myself am interested in learning new literacies but am critical of a paradigm which asks us to be fluent in multiple disciplines / literacies.

On a similar note, what makes the pedagogy of Comstock and Hock's "Sonic Literacy" that much different from a Speech class offered by a Communications dept.? Where do we draw the line between these two disciplines/departments, English/Comp and Communications/Speech?