Navas – Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture

Navas, Eduardo.  “Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture” in Mashup Cultures.  New York: Springer Wien.  2010. Sampling is “when any software users including creative industry professionals as well as average consumers apply cut/copy & paste in diverse software applications.” Remixes find their roots in 1970s Jamaican dub and hip hop. Navas premise in the paper is to argue that when mashups move beyond... Read More

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