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Overview
Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe created a volume that set the agenda in the field of computers and composition scholarship for a decade. The technology changes that scholars of composition studies faced as the new century opened couldn't have been more deserving of passionate study. While we have always used technologies (e.g., the pencil) to communicate with each other, the electronic technologies we now use have changed the world in ways that we have yet to identify or appreciate fully. Likewise, the study of language and literate exchange, even our understanding of terms like literacy, text, and visual, has changed beyond recognition, challenging even our capacity to articulate them.
As Hawisher, Selfe, and their contributors engage these challenges and explore their importance, they "find themselves engaged in the messy, contradictory, and fascinating work of understanding how to live in a new world and a new century." The result is a broad, deep, and rewarding anthology of work still among the standard works of computers and composition study.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780874213164 |
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Publisher: | Utah State University Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/1999 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 464 |
File size: | 3 MB |
Table of Contents
CONTENTSINTRODUCTION: The Passions that Mark Us: Teaching, Texts, and Technologies
PART ONE: Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World
ONE From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies
TWO Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy
THREE The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As A Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes
FOUR ‘English’ at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual
FIVE Petals on a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay
SIX Response: Dropping Bread Crumbs in the Intertextual Forest: Critical Literacy in a Postmodern Age
PART TWO: Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic Age
SEVEN Beyond Imagination: The Internet and Global Digital Literacy
EIGHT Postmodern Pedagogy in Electronic Conversations
NINE Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines
TEN “What is Composition … ?” After Duchamp (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext)
ELEVEN Access: The A-Word in Technology Studies
TWELVE Response: Speaking the Unspeakable About 21st Century Technologies
PART THREE: Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World
THIRTEEN Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique
FOURTEEN On Becoming a Woman: Pedagogies of the Self
FIFTEEN Fleeting Images: Women Visually Writing the Web
SIXTEEN Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change
SEVENTEEN Into the Next Room
EIGHTEEN Response: Virtual Diffusion: Ethics, Techné and Feminism at the End of the Cold Millennium
PART FOUR: Searching for Notions of Our Postmodern Literate Selves in an Electronic World
NINETEEN Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else?
TWENTY Family Values: Literacy, Technology, and Uncle Sam
TWENTY-ONE Technology's Strange, Familiar Voices
TWENTY-TWO Beyond Next Before You Once Again: Repossessing and Renewing Electronic Culture
TWENTY-THREE Response: Everybody's Elegies
WORKS CITED
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX