Deborah Brandt explains that learning to read has meant many things over time. “Literacy was irrevocably transformed from a nineteenth-century moral imperative into a twentieth-century production imperative,” Brandt concludes, “Transformed from an attribute of a ‘good’ individual into an individual ‘good.’” Livia Gershon https://daily.jstor.org/why-learn-to-read/ This reminds me of Doug Belshaw’s work on digital literacies and … Continue reading "📑 Why Learn to Read?"

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