Introduction "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." --Alan Watts "The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the camera and pen alike." --László Moholy-Nagy, "From literacy based on the intertwining engagement of the digital and the photographic. The digital mediates the photographic by absorbing, challenging, and reshap- ing its appearance, use, distribution, and meaning in visual culture. This mediation is not new. It is the expected result when new technologies impact older, existing ones. More than 160 years ago, photography itself proved a mediating agent on painting, and, in its turn, photography was mediated by film. Today, digital imaging technologies are compellingly persua-