http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2007/09/23#literacy <ul>Recommended: <li>Carlo M. Cipolla, <cite>Literacy and Development in the West</cite> <li><a href="gellner.html">Ernest Gellner</a> <ul> <li><cite>Plow, Sword and Book</cite> <li><a href="gellner.html">Ernest Gellner</a>, <cite>Nations and Nationalism</cite> [<a href="../reviews/nations-and-nationalism/">Review: Necessary Forged Papers</a>] </ul> <li>Jack Goody, <cite>The Domestication of the Savage Mind</cite> <li>Dan Sperber, <a href="http://www.dan.sperber.com/future_of_writing.htm">The Future of Writing</a> </ul> <ul>Dis-recommended: <li>Anything by Marshall McLuhan </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Marilyn Jager Adams, <cite>Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print</cite> <li>Andrea diSessa, <cite>Changing Minds: Computers, Literacy and Learning</cite> <li>James Paul Gee, <cite>What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy</cite> <li>Jack Goody <ul> <li><cite>The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society</cite> <li><cite>Power of the Written Tradition</cite> </ul> <li>James J. O'Donnell, <cite>Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/S98Books/S98Catalog/avatars_word.html">Blurb</a>] <li>David R. Olson, <cite>The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/0521575583">Blurb</a>] <li>David Vincent, <cite>The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in Modern Europe</cite> </ul>