Wysocki et al. – Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Wysocki, Anne Frances et al. Writing New Media : Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004. Print. Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications (Wysocki) W. references Bolter and Kress early on in this first chapter to point out the fact that writing is always changing; however, today, writing’s “material practice” is changing in fairly quick and momentous ways. ... Read More
Manovich – The Language of New Media (selections)
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Print. Introduction M. claims that his goal in this work is to record the “research paradigm” or the history of computer media in its first decade of existence, before it “slips into invisibility” (8). To do so he places the language of new media in a history of “modern and visual media cultures.” In so doing... Read More
Hayles – Deeper into the Machine: Learning to Speak Digital
Hayles, N. Katherine. “Deeper into the Machine: Learning to Speak Digital.” Computers and Composition 19 4 (2002): 371-86. Print. H. begins by noting that while composition has done a lot of positive things to expand literacy beyond the bounds of printed text into the realms of the visual they can still do a lot of work to develop “modes of critical attention” that respond to the multimodality of digital compositions: animation,... Read More
Mirel – Writing and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in the Workplace
Mirel, Barbara. “Writing and Database Technology: Extending the Definition of Writing in the Workplace.” Central Works in Technical Communication. Eds. Johnson-Eilola, Johndan and Stuart A. Selber. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. 381-96. Print. M. begins by highlighting that when she published this article (1996) many didn’t consider reports as a central feature in TC. Beyond just the province of good document design, M. notes in her... Read More
WRT624 – Brooke – Lingua Fracta Ch. 4
Collin Brooke. Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media – Chapter 4 “Pattern” This chapter takes up the field of arrangement in rhetoric and composition studies in relation to new media. Brooke begins the chapter noting how early hypertext theory heralded the death of arrangement on the part of the author as the reader/consumer of the text now determined (thorugh the process of choosing links/electronic paths) the format that the... Read More
