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EŒLearning, Volume 1, Number 2, 2004 198 Text-made Text BILL COPE Centre for Workplace Communuication and Culture, Melbourne, Australia MARY KALANTZIS RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia ABSTRACT What is the nature of the change represented by digital communications technologies? How will th e impact of the digital compare with the massive changes spawned in its time by print and books? These are the two key questions addressed in this article. The authors answer the first of these questions by comparing the emergence of the printed book with the emergence of the digital communications technologie s. The next section of this article, ‚Transformations in Ways of Meaning: the case of print™, discusses the technological nature and textual conseq uences of the printing press. The following section, ‚Transformations in Ways of Meaning: designing text digitally™, does the same for digital connectivity. Several themes emerge. Changing the Means of Production of Meaning In December 1995, 16 million people were connected to the Internet. By December 1997, the figure had risen to 101 million; by December 1999, 201 million; by September 2001, 516 million; and by September 2002, 606 million. At the end of 2001, 29 million Chinese citizens were connected to the Internet; by June 2002, this figure had risen to 46 million. By the end of 2002, there were 275,000 Internet users in Uzbekistan, compared to 137,000 a year previously (Nua.com, 2003). Within a decade of its practical availability, 10% of the world™s population had become connected to the Internet. The pace of growth continues, regardless of the burst of the ‚dotcom™ bubble in March 2000. Several years later, technology and telecommunications companies were still in the doldrums, a case of commercial realities bearing little direct resemblance to the social realities of use. Instantaneous, global, free access to information Œ this is the revolutionary promise of the World Wide Web. And in copious quantities Œ as we were writing this paragraph, Google reported that its index covered
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