Literacy in the Network of Shifting Borders
Literacy in the Network of Shifting Borders

Summary/Abstract: Experiencing globalization as we do, with 'networking' the label for across-the-border communication since the end of the twentieth century ('border' taken in more senses than the most plausible one), we witness major shifts in long-established cultural patterns and consequently in the social and political status quos of most nations. There are such major contrasts between the astonishing technological breakthroughs achieved in IT, and the very nature of communication thence resulting, that the very substance of communication degenerates into a global, ceaseless, ever-mounting super-babble. It is against this general background that national and international governing bodies with ambitious social goals on their agendas have to cope with an abundance of illiteracy (as well as with other forms of social inadequacy) on the part of their citizens – who in turn claim more and more liberties (a fact that is apt to make generous humanist ideals hard to attain in the present historic context). Evidently, with such changes at hand, re-discussing definitions of fundamental cultural and social concepts is an unavoidable liability.

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