Who's talking about photography and literacy?

Check out this interesting blog post by Marvin Heiferman addressing the ubiquitous presence of photography in contemporary culture -- and the lack of conversation about what all of that activity could potentially mean.

Is academia addressing the changing practices in the medium and associated photo-literacy? Is the language of photography destined to a fate similar to Latin: assimilated into many other languages and rendered irrelevant on its own (except, of course, for academic study)?

This post by Charlotte Cotton from the Aperture blog addresses a related topic: Are institutions (schools, galleries, museums) addressing innovations in photography?