The Comstock and Hock article asks us to emphasize sonic as well as visual and alphabetic literacy in composition classrooms, which also requires some instruction in new audio editing technologies if our students are going to compose sonically. At what point does it become beyond ridiculous for us to view composition as the Super Walmart of literacy instruction? If we teach visual and sonic literacy along with the technologies that students need to compose, even incompetently, in them in FYC, when would we have time to teach anything else? Are we just to abandon the "outdated" "outmoded" mode of alphabetic literacy?
Cynthia Selfe like many of the other new media scholars we have read, seems very confident that alphabetic literacy is or will be increasingly irrelevant (okay so maybe that's hyperbolic, but so are the assertions). Why? What evidence is there that alphabetic literacy has lost any let alone all of its dominance?
Selfe repeatedly refers to digital and alphabetic literacy as "competing literacies." What does this mean? Why should we see them as competing? Competing for what?
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