Passions Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies

by Gail Hawisher

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
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

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Passions that Mark Us: Teaching, Texts, and Technologies Hawisher Gail E. Selfe Cynthia L.
PART ONE: Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World
ONE From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies Baron Dennis
TWO Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy Hesse Doug
THREE The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As A Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes Sloane Sarah J.
FOUR ‘English’ at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual Kress Gunther
FIVE Petals on a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay Vielstimmig Myka
SIX Response: Dropping Bread Crumbs in the Intertextual Forest: Critical Literacy in a Postmodern Age George Diana Shoos Diane
PART TWO: Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic Age
SEVEN Beyond Imagination: The Internet and Global Digital Literacy Faigley Lester
EIGHT Postmodern Pedagogy in Electronic Conversations Cooper Marilyn
NINE Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines Sosnoski James
TEN “What is Composition … ?” After Duchamp (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext) Sirc Geoffrey
ELEVEN Access: The A-Word in Technology Studies Moran Charles
TWELVE Response: Speaking the Unspeakable About 21st Century Technologies Bruce Bertram C.
PART THREE: Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World
THIRTEEN Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique Porter James
FOURTEEN On Becoming a Woman: Pedagogies of the Self Romano Susan
FIFTEEN Fleeting Images: Women Visually Writing the Web Hawisher Gail E. Sullivan Patricia A.
SIXTEEN Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change Selfe Cynthia L.
SEVENTEEN Into the Next Room Guyer Carolyn Hagaman Dianne
EIGHTEEN Response: Virtual Diffusion: Ethics, Techné and Feminism at the End of the Cold Millennium Haynes Cynthia
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? Wysocki Anne Frances Johnson-Eilola Johndan
TWENTY Family Values: Literacy, Technology, and Uncle Sam Amato Joe
TWENTY-ONE Technology's Strange, Familiar Voices Eldred Janet Carey
TWENTY-TWO Beyond Next Before You Once Again: Repossessing and Renewing Electronic Culture Joyce Michael
TWENTY-THREE Response: Everybody's Elegies Moulthrop Stuart
WORKS CITED
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX