Concepedia

Cultures, literacy, and the web

interactions · 2003 · 33 citations · 8 references

Concepts

Digital LiteracyCultureDigital CultureCecil RhodesWeb LiteracyInformation Super-highwayCape TownLiteracyEducationCultural Anthropology

Abstract

Cecil Rhodes wanted to build a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo in order to subjugate the continent. Now we want to build an information super-highway from Cape to Cairo which will liberate the continent [11].

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Visual Design, Visual Language, Narrative Theory +13

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Discourse Structure, Social Linguistics, Sociolinguistics +5

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Engineering, Information Security, Browser-based Computing +19