CCR691 – Final Project – Potts
Potts, Liza. “Using Actor Network Theory to Trace and Improve Multimodal Communication Design.” Technical Communication Quarterly 18 3 (2009): 281-301. Print. Potts begins the article by demonstrating how CNNs list of Hurricane Katrina missing/survivors was an exercise in a non-function network – or a non-network. Because of the sites inability for users to interact with the system to “add important details, edit names, locate duplicates, or point out incorrect... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – DeVoss, Cushman, Grabill
DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, Ellen Cushman, and Jeffrey T. Grabill. “Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing.” College Composition and Communication 57 1 (2005): 14-44. Print. The authors are going to take up the “moment in time, space, institutional relations, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles” involved in student created new media projects (15). The political and institutional infrastructures that allow new media composition will be a focus... Read More
CCR691 – VTB’s Spiritual Literacy – Ch. 1 for Comment
Tolar-Burton, Vicki. Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley’s Methodism: Reading, Writing, and Speaking to Believe. Waco: Baylor UP, 2008. Print. Chapter One: John Wesley and the Rhetorical and Literacy Practices of Early Methodism Summary: There’s a lot going on in this section as it introduces the reader to Wesley’s program and also serves as the blueprint for the remainder of the book. Early in the introduction, VTB lays out a couple of different goals for her... Read More
CCR691 – Ethnography Readings
From Methods and Methodology in Composition Research Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan Chapter 7 : Ethnography and Composition: Studying Language at Home This chapter provides a great how-to for ethnography. Highlights: Ethnography works in situations where the researcher has epistemic privilege Ethnographers tend to focus on the daily routines in the everyday lives of the communities being studied. 3 modes of ethnography: Comprehensive-oriented: this is almost impossible... Read More
Network – Spinuzzi
Spinuzzi, Clay. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter One: Networks, Genres, and Four Little Disruptions In this introductory chapter Spinuzzi does a lot of definitional work in order to inform the rest of his study. S. is an activity theory researcher at heart; however, he also sees that AT has severely limited itself. To understand and work past these limitations, Spinuzzi recommends adopting some of the tenants of... Read More
