Relations of Literacy and Technology

"How does literacy shape technology? How does technology shape literacy?"

These two quetions seem to be almost the same, but I think the answers would be different even though they have definitely influenced each other all the time. First of all, technology is one kind of literacy, which also contains understanding, knowing and operating. As the rapid development of everything, people start to unsatisfied with the speed of their literacy promotion by brains. This pressure really pushes the technology advancing. For example, webwork came out because people want to understand the world more easilier and clearly. Hence, technology development is base on literacy promotion.

However, as far as I am concerned, the influence by technology is specific. Even though new technology also accelerate the literacy promotion of the world, literacy is still literacy. For example, ancient people write text by stones then people used pens in latter-day and we use computers to type the texts now. However, the texts are always the same. The difference is the way to understand and write so technology can not change the literacy.

Audience of media.(Failed posting on March 31)

Nowadays, there are quite a few ways to know and understand what happend in our world. People as audiences would like to choose their most favourite and simple method to acquire all kinds of information. In this way, how do medias influence and persuade audiences is very important such as paper work, pictures or even videos. For example, videos on internet is a kind of high technology method for previous generations so they may probably choose newpaper to know what they want because it is easy. Instead, young people are opposite because they have been into this web society.

As for me, what I focus is also quite simple. I like to believe what I see by myself so that the news with real pictures or videos will easily persuade me. However, I do not usually trust the text news with lots of rhetoric. It seem that most of the true reality has been covered already.

Furthermore, another media method what convinced me is printed book. I am always trusting what books write without any reasons. Due to this reason, the time I favourite is to read a book with a cup of coffee, in which I learned and relaxed.