Cynthia Selfe: "Nowhere are these struggles and debates rendered in more complex terms--and nowhere are they more influential on our own work--than they are in the direct linkage between literacy and computer technology that has been established in increasingly direct ways over the last decade in this country. This potent linkage is sustained and reproduced by a complexly related set of cultural influences: workplaces in which approximately 70% of jobs requiring a bachelors degree or an advanced college degree now require the use computers (Digest of Education Statistics, 1996, p.458); a corporate sector focused on exploiting the 89% of 'teachers and the public' who believe that the Internet adds value to teaching and learning specifically because it 'reduces the costs teachers spend on classroom activities' ('MCI Nationwide Poll,' 1998); schools in which 87% of high school students are now writing on computers by Grade 11 (Coley, Crandler, and Engle, 1997, p. 27); and homes in which 86% of parents are convinced that a computer is the one 'most beneficial and effective product that they can buy to expand their children's opportunities' for education, future success, and economic prosperity (Getting America's Student's Ready, 1996, p. x)."