Introduce class members, course goals, and projects.

Discuss frameworks for study technology theories and computers and composition.

Explore a range of CCT issues, a reading exercise:

Latour, Bruno. (1996). Aramis or the love of technology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (ER & copies provided)

Moulthrop, Stuart. (1991). The politics of hypertext. In Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (Eds.), Evolving perspectives on computers and composition studies: Questions for the 1990s (pp. 253-271). Urbana, IL: NCTE & Computers and Composition Press. (ER & copies provided)

Moran, Charles. (1998). From a high-tech to a low-tech writing classroom: "You can't go home again." Computers and Composition, 15.1, 1-10. (ER & copies provided)

Regan, Alison E., & Zuern, John D. (2000). Community-service learning and computer-mediated advanced composition: The going to class, getting online, and giving back project. Computers and Composition, 17.2, 177-196. (ER & copies provided)

Rickly, Rebecca. (1998). Reflection and responsibility in (cyber) tutor training: Seeing ourselves clearly on and off the screen. In Eric Hobson (Ed.), Wiring the writing center (pp. 44-61). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. (ER & copies provided)

Selfe, Cynthia L., & Selfe, Richard J. (1994). The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in electronic contact zones. College Composition and Communication, 45.4, 480-504. (ER & copies provided)

Select your training opportunity for the Resource Review Project.

Readings on History of Computers & Composition:

Hawisher, Gail E., LeBlanc, Paul, Moran, Charles, & Selfe, Cynthia L. (1996). Computers and the teaching of writing in American higher education: A history. Norwood, NJ: Ablex and Computers and Composition Press. (required purchase)

Hawisher, Gail E., & Selfe, Cynthia L. (1991). The rhetoric of technology and the electronic writing class. College Composition and Communication, 42, 55-65. (ER)

Kaplan, Nancy. (1991). Ideology, technology, and the future of writing instruction. In Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (Eds.), Evolving perspectives on computers and composition studies: Questions for the 1990s (pp. 11-42). Urbana, IL: NCTE and Computers and Composition Press. (ER)

Selfe, Cynthia L. (1999). Technology and literacy: A story about the perils of not paying attention. College Composition and Communication, 50.3, 411-436. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Stephanie & Nathalie

Readings on Theories of Technology:

Ferre, Fredrick. (1995). Philosophy of technology. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press. (ER)

Habermas, Jürgen. (1970). Toward a rational society: Student protest, science, and politics (Jeremy J. Shapiro, Trans.). Boston: Beacon Press. (ER)

Heidegger, Martin. (1977). The question concerning technology. In William Lovitt (Trans.), The question concerning technology and other essays (pp. 3-35). New York: Harper and Row. (ER)

Marcuse, Herbert. (1964). One-dimensional man. Boston: Beacon Press. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Holly & Vance

Readings on More Theories of Technology:

Ellul, Jacques. (1980). The technological system (Joachim Neugroschel, Trans.). New York: Continuum. (ER)

Feenberg, Andrew. (1991). Critical theory of technology. New York: Oxford University Press. (ER)

Feenberg, Andrew. (1999). Questioning technology. New York: Routledge. (ER)

Haraway, Donna. (1991). Simians, cyborgs, and women: The reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge. (ER)

Winner, Langdon. (1986). The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Erik & Nathalie

Submit Resource Review Project.

Readings on Electronic Ethics & Our Lives Online:

Dizard,Wilson Jr. (1997). Old media, new media: Mass communications in the information age. Menlo Park, CA: Longman Publishers. (ER)

Mitcham, Carl. (1995). Ethics into design. In Richard Buchanan & Victor Margolin (Eds.), Discovering design: Explorations in design studies (pp. 173-189). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Moran, Charles. (1999). Access-The "A" word in technology studies. In Gail Hawisher & Cynthia Selfe (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 205-220). Logan: Utah State University Press. (required purchase)

Porter, James E. (1998). Rhetorical ethics and internetworked writing. Greenwich, CT and Houghton, MI: Ablex and Computers and Composition Press. (ER)

Virilio, Paul. (1993). The third interval: A critical transition. In Verena Adndermatt Conley & Peter Andermatt (Eds.), Re-thinking technologies (Chapter 1). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (ER or http://www.georgetown.edu/grad/CCT/tbase/viriliotext.html)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Jillian & Stephanie

Submit Plan for Pedagogy Project.

Readings on In/Equality & The Electronic Word:

Historical Readings
Chapter Three: Visionaries and Convergences: The
Accidental History of the Net By Howard Rheingold
(ER or http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook/vcbook3.html)

1.2. History of the Net
(ER or http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/net_hist.html)

Other Readings
Cooper, Marilyn. Postmodern pedagogy in electronic conversations. In Gail Hawisher & Cynthia Selfe (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 140-160). Logan: Utah State University Press. (required purchase)

Faigley, Lester. (1992). Fragments of rationality: Postmodernity and the subject of composition. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. (ER)

Lanham, Richard A. (1993). The electronic word: Democracy, technology and the arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ER)

Romano, Susan. (1999). On becoming a woman: Pedagogies of the self. In Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 249-267). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. (required purchase)

Sirc, Geoffrey. (1995). The twin worlds of electronic conferencing. Computers and Composition, 12, 265-277. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Nathalie & Holly

Readings on Power & Hypertext:

Historical Readings
"As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush
(ER or http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/
bushf.htm)

1.1 History of Hypertext
(ER or http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/htx_hist.html)

Other Readings
Deleuze, Gilles, & Guattari, Felix. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (ER)

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. (1996). Nostalgic angels: Rearticulating hypertext writing. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. (ER)

Joyce, Michael. (1995). Of two minds: Hypertext pedagogy and poetics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. (ER)

Landow, George P. (1992). Hypertext: The convergence of contemporary critical theory and technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. (ER)

Moulthrop, Stuart, & Kaplan, Nancy. (1994). They became what they beheld: The futility of resistance in the space of electronic writing. In Cynthia L. Selfe & Susan Hilligoss (Eds.), Literacy and computers: The complications of teaching and learning with technology (pp. 220-237). New York: Modern Language Association. (ER)

Snyder, Ilana. (1998). Beyond the hype: Reassessing hypertext. In Ilana Snyder & Michael Joyce (Eds.), Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era (pp. 125-143). New York: Routledge. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Vance, Jillian, & Nathalie

Readings on Dis/Connectedness & the WWW:

Historical Readings
1.3. History of the Web
(ER or http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/web_hist.html)

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Seven Points
(ER or http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Points/)

The World Wide Web: Past, Present and Future
Tim Berners-Lee
(ER or http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html)

Other Readings
DeWitt, Scott Lloyd. (1997). Out there on the web: Pedagogy and identity in face of opposition. Computers and Composition 14.2, 229-243. (ER)

Hawisher, Gail E. & Sullivan, Patricia A. (1999). Fleeting images: Women visually writing the web. In Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 268-291). Logan, UT: University of Utah Press. (required purchase)

Kimme Hea, Amy. (2002). Rearticulating e-dentities in the web-based classroom: one technoresearcher's exploration of power & the WWW. Computers and Composition forthcoming. (ER)

Knadler, Stephen. (2000). E-Racing difference in e-Space: Black female subjectivity and the web-based portfolio. Computers and Composition, 18.3, 235-255. (ER)

Slatin, John M. (2001). The art of ALT: toward a more accessible Web. Computers and Composition, 18.1, 73-81. (ER)

Slack, Jennifer Daryl. (1989). Contextualizing technology. In Brenda Dervin, Lawrence Grossberg, Barbara J. O'Keefe, and Ellen Wartella (Eds.), Rethinking communications, Vol. 2. (pp. 329-345). London: Sage Publications.

Rhetorical Précis& Discussion Questions: Vance & Erik

All Pedagogy Project Portfolios are due Today--provide both electronic and hard copies of your materials.

Meet in CCIT 311 for Class Presentations of Pedagogy Projects.

Meet in CCIT 311 for Class Presentations of Pedagogy Projects.

Meet in CCIT 311 for Class MOO discussion.

Readings on Dis/embodiment & Life in a MOO

Historical Readings
A Hyperytext History of Multi-User Dimensions
Copyright 1993 Lauren P. Burka
(ER or http://www.csun.edu/~hceng028/m-hist.txt)

Early MUD History
(ER or http://www.ludd.luth.se/mud/aber/mud-history.html)

Other Readings
Dibbell, Julian. (1998). My Tiny Life. Retrieved August 20, 2002, from http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle.html.
(ER or http://www.levity.com/julian/bungle.html).

Haynes, Cynthia. (1998). Help! There's a moo in this class! In Cynthia Haynes & Jan Rule Holmevik (Eds.), High wired (pp. 161-176). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (ER)

Kolko, Beth E. (1998). We are not just (electronic) words: Learning the literacies of culture, body, and politics. In Todd Taylor & Irene Ward (Eds.), Literacy theory in the age of the internet (pp. 61-78). New York: Columbia University Press. (ER)

Taylor, Todd. (1998). The persistence of authority: Coercing the student body. In Todd Taylor & Irene Ward (Eds.), Literacy theory in the age of the internet (pp. 109-121). New York: Columbia University Press. (ER)

Turkle, Sherry. (1995). Life on the screen: Identity in the age of the internet. NY: Simon and Schuster. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Holly & Jillian

Submit Plan for Seminar Paper.

Readings on Spatial Paradoxes & Distance Education:

Historical Readings
Freed, Ken. (2001). A history of distance learning. Retrieved August 20, 2002, from http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn1.html. (ER or http://www.media-visions.com/ed-distlrn1.html)

Other Readings
Miller, Susan. (2001). How near and yet how far? Theorizing distance teaching. Computers and Composition 18.4, 321-328. (ER)

Quigley, Dan. (1994). The evolution of an online syllabus. Computers and Composition, 11, 165-172. (ER)

Sherry, Lynn. (1996). Issues in distance learning. International Journal of Educational Telecommunications, 1.4, 337-365. (ER or http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~lsherry/pubs/issues.html)

Soja, Edward. (1996). Thirdspace. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996. (ER)

Webb Peterson, Patricia. (2001). The debate about online learning: key issues for writing teachers. Computers and Composition, 18.4, 359-370. (ER)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Erik & Stephanie

Readings on New Media & Digital Life:

Ellsworth, Elizabeth. (1997). Teaching positions: Difference, pedagogy, and the power of address. New York: Teachers College Press. (ER)

Kress, Gunther, & Van Leeuwen, Theo. (2001). Multimodal discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication. London: Arnold. (ER)

McLuhan, Marshall. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man. New York: New American Library.
(ER or http://www.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/overload/mcluhan/umtoc.html)

Manovich, Lev. (2001). The language of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (ER)

Wysocki, Anne Frances. (2001). Impossibly distinct: On form/content and word/image in two pieces of computer-based interactive multimedia. Computers and Composition, 18.2, 137-162. (ER)

Peer Exchange of 1st Drafts of Seminar Paper.

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Holly & Vance

Readings on In/adequacies of Literacy:

Dorr, Aimee. (1994). What constitutes literacy in a culture with diverse and changing means of communication? In Deborah Keller-Cohen (Ed.), Literacy in interdisciplinary conversations (pp. 129-145). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (ER)

Haas, Christina, & Neuwirth, Christine M. (1994). Writing the technology that writes us: Research on literacy and the shape of technology. In Cynthia L. Selfe & Susan Hilligoss (Eds.), Literacy and computers: The complications of teaching and learning with technology (pp. 319-335). New York: Modern Language Association. (ER)

Kaplan, Nancy. (2002). E-literacies: Politexts, hypertexts, and other cultural formations in the late age of print. Retrieved August 20, 2002, from http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/lit/.
(ER or http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/lit/)

Kaplan, Nancy. (2002). Literacy beyond the book. Retrieved August 20, 2002, from http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/parc/index.htm.
(ER or http://iat.ubalt.edu/kaplan/parc/index.htm)

Mignolo, Walter D. (1994). Literacy and the colonization of memory: Writing histories of people without history. In Deborah Keller-Cohen (Ed.), Literacy in interdisciplinary conversations (pp. 91-113). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (ER)

New London Group. (2000). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. In Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (Eds.), Multiliteracies: Literacy learning and the design of social futures (pp. 9-37). New York: Routledge. (ER)

Wysocki, Anne Frances, & Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. (1999). Blinded by the letter: Why are we using literacy as a metaphor for everything else? In Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (Eds.), Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 349-368). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. (required purchase)

Rhetorical Précis & Discussion Questions: Jillian, Erik, & Stephanie

Final Draft of Seminar Paper due on Friday, December 13th by 2 pm.