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I was thinking more about this yesterday, after I heard an interesting comment on the radio. It was a (really annoying) talk show on some top-40s radio station. The host's mother had just purchased her first iphone, and they called her to talk about it. Somewhere along the way, they started talking about the Blackberry, and someone mentioned an iphone cover for a Blackberry--that is, a cover for your Blackberry that makes it look like an iphone. The host made a comment along the lines of, "well some people are really embarrassed to put their Blackberry out on the table." This comment was interesting to me for a lot of reasons. In today's world, our phones are a huge part of our daily literacy experience. There are codes for self-expression via text message and email -- standards, if you will, set by the discourse community within which you're communicating. (For example, it'd be weird to text your friend with perfect spelling and grammar; but it would also be weird to text or email your boss with abbreviations like "LOL" and "OMG.") But this quote emphasized that there are also standards for the device that we use for communication. How does that fit into the mix?