Documents the role in & effect of the Internet & other new digital technologies on schooling and the dev. of language and literacy; the 1st serious study of dev. of electronic literacy among students from linguistically & culturally diverse backgrounds.

Contents: Preface. Introduction: Surveying the Terrain of Literacy. Computers, Composition, and Christianity. Networking Into Academic Discourse. Computer-Assisted Language Revitalization. Cyber Service Learning. Conclusion: Striving Toward Multiliteracies. Epilogue. Appendix: Researching the Online Classroom.