Should “Digital Literacy” Supplant Print Literacy?

“Digital literacy’s advocates increasingly speak of replacing, rather than supplementing, print literacy. What is ‘reading’ anyway, they ask, in a multimedia world like ours? We are increasingly distractible, impatient, and convenience-obsessed–and the paper book just can’t keep up. Shouldn’t we simply acknowledge that we are becoming people of the screen, not people of the book?”