New DMLcentral Post: Writing as “The Mass Literate Experience” of Our Age and What It Might Mean for Libraries

“For perhaps the first time in the history of mass literacy, writing seems to be eclipsing reading as the literate experience of consequence.What happens when writing (and not just reading) becomes the grounds of mass literate experience, when more and more people ‘think about audiences’ as part of their daily routine engagement with literacy?How does a social shift in that and energy toward writing affect the ways that people develop their literacy and understand its worth? And finally, how...