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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Computers and Writing"”.
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Gender and race, online communities, and composition classrooms
… of three separate sites, I use examples of women and minorities fighting against discrimination online to explore the power structures inherent to networks and how these might affect classroom practice. I will show how our ordinary assumptions in rhetoric and composition as well as computers and …
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Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century
… has a long history in the field of composition, and the work of my dissertation is to extend that research into the newer subfield of composition, computers and writing. Specifically I focus on the way students use multiple linguistic competencies (oral, print and electronic competencies) to …
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Disciplining Identities: Feminism, New Media, and 21st Century Research Practices
… the ethnographic methods in feminist theory and claims that the future of feminist work in writing studies must explore new media as a research method. The majority of the chapter examines the connections such work can make with feminist film studies and feminist ethnography, and provides a …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed as inherently democratic for individuals and nations, and are promised to …
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Reassembling Writing Technologies: Historical and Situated Studies of Rhetorical Activity
… research on hypertextual, collaborative writing software and hardware in the 1960s and situated studies of writers’ digital memory and invention work in the present, this dissertation considers the emergent uses of technologies surrounding disruptive moments. Combining Bruno Latour’s …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
Millie Garfield gets out of bed each morning and makes a cup of coffee. She then goes to her computer and starts her day with a review of her favorite blogs, a visit to her son’s Twitter page, and a quick scan of reader comments on her own weekly blog posts. She looks forward to corresponding with …