For our ETEC 540 Final Project, Scott Richmond and I recorded an unscripted podcast discussing  Native vs. Browser based word processors as a reading and writing technology, considering historical and cultural contexts, and implications on literacy and education.

Word processors are hosted on machines engineered to commandeer attention, distracting from the task at hand…. More on SoundCloud.

References:

Bolter, Jay David. (2001). Writing space: computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print. New York, NY: Routledge. 

McLuhan, M (1977). Laws of the Media. ETC: A Review of General Semantics (34) 2., 173-150. 

Ong, Walter, J. Taylor & Francis eBooks – CRKN, & CRKN MiL Collection. (2002). Orality and literacy: The technologizing of the word. New York; London: Routledge.