Sanchez – Outside the Text: Retheorizing Empiricism and Identity
Sanchez, Raul. “Outside the Text: Retheorizing Empricism and Identity.” College English 74 (3) 234-246. Sanchez begins by recognizing that the study of writing over the past 40 years has resulted in an expanded notion of textuality – what Susan Miller has called the “textual world” or what Derrida terms the “general field of writing” (234). This expansion pushes composition research beyond the idea... Read More
Self, Hawisher, & Berry – Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media
Selfe, Cynthia, Gail Hawisher, and Patrick Berry. “Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media.” Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Eds. Selfe, Dickie, Danielle DeVoss and Heide McKee. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. The authors begin by acknowledging the collaborative, social nature of knowledge production in the contemporary, networked era (350); however, they also note that the English department is... Read More
Rice – Networks and New Media
Rice, Jeff. “Networks and New Media.” College English 69 2 (2006): 127-33. Print. Rice begins this essay by noting that “When we ask ‘What should college English be?’ I want to respond, ‘College English should be new media’” (127). He states this (to some unpalatable) imperitive to draw attention to the role of the network in the Humanities. As he notes, “Wehreas traditionally... Read More
Ganz – Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements
“Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements.” Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Ed. Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business School Press, 2010, 527-568. Ganz begins by noting that “Social movements emerge as a result of the efforts of purposeful actors (individuals, organizations) to assert new public values, form new relationships in those values, and mobilize the political, economic, and cultural... Read More
Shirky – File-Sharing Goes Social
Shirky, Clay. “File-Sharing Goes Social.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet.2/15/2010 (2003). <http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html>. Shirky highlights the RIAA’s “Crush the Connectors” strategy in this article. Specifically Shirky notes how the disintegration of highly networked, multiply linked node systems via RIAA action will work to deter file sharing among groups; however, he also... Read More
