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Digital Literacy Instruction in Afghanistan

Digital Literacy Instruction in Afghanistan

Mike Edwards
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466649163|ISBN10: 146664916X|EISBN13: 9781466649170
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch011
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Edwards, Mike. "Digital Literacy Instruction in Afghanistan." Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World, edited by Gustav Verhulsdonck and Marohang Limbu, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 209-225. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch011

APA

Edwards, M. (2014). Digital Literacy Instruction in Afghanistan. In G. Verhulsdonck & M. Limbu (Eds.), Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World (pp. 209-225). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch011

Chicago

Edwards, Mike. "Digital Literacy Instruction in Afghanistan." In Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World, edited by Gustav Verhulsdonck and Marohang Limbu, 209-225. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter uses the American military's purchase of a $5.6 million contract to supply the National Military Academy of Afghanistan with laptop computers as the occasion to investigate the complex and overdetermined intersections of digital, administrative, and literacy technologies. These intersections and the challenges they produced for the author as a Western mentor working with Afghan postsecondary instructors in ESL and digital literacies reveal the problematic homogenizing Western economic and cultural assumptions and the intense naturalization of administrative technologies that accompany the denaturalized use of digital and textual technologies in global contexts. The connections of those challenges to recent scholarship in rhetoric and composition highlight the limitations of that scholarship's conception of political economy in a global digital context and also offers new possibilities for imagining hybrid multilingual digital literacies on a global scale.

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