Swarts – Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks from Reusable Content
Swarts, Jason. “Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks from Reusable Content.” JBTC (2010): 127-163. Abstract: Drawing on a study of writers reusing content from one document to another, this study examines the rhetorical purpose of reuse. Writing reuse is predominantly studied through the literature on single sourcing and enacted via technologies built on single-sourcing models. Such theoretical models and derivative technologies... Read More
Beaugrande – The Processes of Invention: Association and Recombination
Beaugrande, Robert De. “The Processes of Invention: Association and Recombination.” College Composition and Communication 30 3 (1979): 260-67. Print. YES B. begins by highlighting that the inventional process is always bound to a “common repository of knowledge and experience shared by writers and readers’ (260). In other words, it relies on common sense and common knowledge. B. notes that all information and knowledge is... Read More
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
Selections from Bolter & Grusin – Remediation: Understanding New Media
Bolter, J. David , and Richard Grusin. Remediation Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999. Print. Preface What is remediation? RG coined the term in a meeting in May 1996, describing it as “a way to complicate the notion of ‘repurposing’” that relied on the double logic of immediacy and hypermediacy (more on that later) (viii). Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation What is this... Read More
