TY - BOOK ID - 96561328 TI - Coding literacy : how computer programming is changing writing PY - 2017 SN - 9780262340236 0262340232 9780262340243 0262340240 9780262036245 026203624X PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Computers and literacy. KW - Literacy KW - Computer literacy. KW - Written communication KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) KW - Rhetoric KW - Computer programming KW - History. KW - Study and teaching. KW - DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory KW - COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction KW - Computer languages KW - Computer program languages KW - Computer programming languages KW - Machine language KW - Electronic data processing KW - Languages, Artificial KW - Digital literacy KW - Literacy, Computer KW - Technological literacy KW - Illiteracy KW - Education KW - General education KW - Literacy and computers KW - computer programmering KW - kommunikation KW - retorik KW - skrivning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:96561328 AB - The message from educators, the tech community, and even politicians is clear: everyone should learn to code. To emphasize the universality and importance of computer programming, promoters of coding for everyone often invoke the concept of "literacy," drawing parallels between reading and writing code and reading and writing text. In this book, Annette Vee examines the coding-as-literacy analogy and argues that it can be an apt rhetorical frame. The theoretical tools of literacy help us understand programming beyond a technical level, and in its historical, social, and conceptual contexts. Viewing programming from the perspective of literacy and literacy from the perspective of programming, she argues, shifts our understandings of both. Computer programming becomes part of an array of communication skills important in everyday life, and literacy, augmented by programming, becomes more capacious. Vee examines the ways that programming is linked with literacy in coding literacy campaigns, considering the ideologies that accompany this couplig, and she looks at how both writing and programming encode and distribute information. She explores historical parallels between writing and programming, using the evolution of mass textual literacy to shed light on the trajectory of code from military and government infrastructure to large-scale businesses to personal use. Writing and coding were institutionalized, domesticated, and then established as a basis for literacy. ER -