understood in relation to constantly emerging changes in digital literacy practice.” He uses a framework
that maps the following dimensions in order to determine how the texts in the collection are “new”:
production, representation, distribution, reception, activity, socialization, and ecology. He writes about
representation, stating “reception of these digital texts is altering because viewer-readers might be taking
more complex paths than typical print-reading…and might engaging in more distracted reception (like
how many times did I check my email when I was surfing these chapters?)” He argues that digital texts
may not be lasting as long through; he states that he has books from his grandmother’s high school years
but he throws out computer games quickly as he no longer has technology that will play them. “[I]n short,
digital scholarship’s relationship to physical, biological and biologically relevant systems of the planet are
certainly new, but exactly what they are is uncertain, except that they remain far from sustainable.” In the
same vein, he asks, “if active participation in media rest on modes of affluence…then I have to wonder
about a sustained and stabilized hyperlocal future.” He says that new genres are formed by the
combination of current genres. Finally, he is considered that digitality might to used simply to find
another dominant form.