English 883C: Electronic Literacy | Department of English | The Ohio State University
Topics: Artifacts | Interfaces | Education | Difference | CyberCulture
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Symbol Systems, Artifacts, and the Material Technology of Electronic Literacy |
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Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. TK5105.5 .M57 1995. See chapter four, "Recombinant Architecture," for discussion of the effects of digital media on the design of bookstores, libraries, museums, theaters, and schools (47-70).
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. TK5103.7 .N43 1995. A collection of Negroponte's monthly column for Wired magazine on the nature of digital media, revised for this collection. For his basic point of departure vis à vis print, see chapter one, "The DNA of Information: Bits and Atoms."
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Dertouzos, Michael L. "Communications, Computers and Networks." Scientific American. Sep. 1991: 62-69. Discussion of the social and economic effects of the computing/communications network.
Frieling, Rudolf. "Hot Spots: Text in Motion and the Textscape of Electronic Media." Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Ed. Lynn Hershman Leeson. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1996. 267-78. On the orchestration of text and images, particularly in video.
Lunsford, Karen. "Electronic Texts and the Internet: A Review of The English Server. Computers and the Humanities 29 (1995): 297-305. As the title suggests, a review of an academic web site for English studies.
Rawlins, Gregory J. E. "The Power of Ideas." Moths to the Flame: The Seductions of Computer Technology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. 45-68. A mediation on the effects of various material technologies of writing on the dissemination of ideas.
White, Keith. "The Killer App: Wired Magazine, Voice of the Corporate Revolution." Utne Reader, Sep.-Oct. 1995: 77-81. Review and interview regarding the must-read rag of the digiterati.
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Heim, Michael. Electric Language: A Philosophical Study of Word Processing. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987. Z52.4 .H44 1987.
Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. QA76.9.H85 H45 1993.
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Bennahum, David. "Fly me to the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality." Lingua Franca Jun. 1994: 1+. An introduction to text-based virtual reality.
Douglass, J. Yellowlees. "Understanding the Act of Reading: the WOE Beginner's Guide to Dissection." Writing on the Edge 2.2 (1991): 112-25. Reading hypertext.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "A Neo-Luddite Reflects on the Internet." Chronicle of Higher Education 1 Sep. 1996: A56. On the suitability of electronic text for the study of intellectual history, and on the significance of the electronic revolution."
Kernan, Alvin. "The Breakdown of Print Institutions: The Strange Case of Literature." Breadloaf News Winter 1991: 25-29. Beginning with an overview of the state of print culture, including brief treatments of newspapers, libraries, book publication, and literacy, Kernan eventually draws a bead on the effect on electronic media on literature in print.
Lane, Anthony. "Byte Verse: How to Wing Your Way through Thirteen Hundred Years of English Poetry in an Afternoon of Interfacing." The New Yorker 20 & 27 Feb. 1995: 102+. On reading the Chadwick-Healy English Poetry Full-Text Database (OSU only).
Norman, Donald A. Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993. Short excerpts touching on several aspects of what Norman calls "cognitive artifacts"--things that we use to help us think.
Renan, Sheldon. "The Net and the Future of Being Fictive." Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Ed. Lynn Hershman Leeson. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1996. 61-69. A breezy look at future fiction.
Roberts, Paul. "Virtual Grub Street: Sorrows of a Multimedia Hack." Harper's Magazine Jun. 1996: 71-77. Writing for the CD-ROM market.
Spooner, Michael, and Kathleen Yancey. "Postings on a Genre of Email." College Composition and Communication 47.2 (1996): 252&endash;78. Followed by three responses grouped together as "Interchanges: Counterpostings on a Genre of Email"; Deborah H. Holdstein, "Power, Genre, and Technology" 279-84; Carolyn R. Miller, "This is Not an Essay" 284&endash;88; James J. Sosnoski, "Notes on Postmodern Double Agency and the Arts of Lurking" 288&endash;92.
Swigart, Rob. "A Writer's Desktop." The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Ed. Brenda Laurel. 135-41. How "information is shaped by this new medium."
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Hawisher, Gail E., Cynthia L. Selfe, Charles Moran, and Paul LeBlanc. Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History. New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. [On order]
Joyce, Michael. Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1995. PN56.T37 J69 1995.
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Joyce, Michael. "Storyspace as a Hypertext System for Writers and Readers of Varying Ability." Hypertext 91. Baltimore: ACM, 1991. 381-88. Considers adaptability of hypertext to the needs of students with different ability levels.
Hawisher, Gail E., and Cynthia L. Selfe. "The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class." College Composition and Communication 42.1 (1991): 55-65.
Selfe, Cynthia L., and Richard J. Selfe Jr. "The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones." College Composition and Communication 45.4 (1994): 480-504.
Takayoshi, Pam. "Writing the Culture of Computers: Students as Technology Critics in Cultural Studies Classes." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 23.3 (1996): 198-204.
Wahlstrom, Billie J., and Cynthia Selfe. "A View from the Bridge: English Departments Piloting among the Shoals of Computer Use." ADE Bulletin (Winter 1994): 35-45. The economics of computer-supported teaching in English studies.
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The Cultural Web of Electronic Literacy I: Wired Women and Difference on the Net |
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Kaplan, Nancy, and Eva Farrell. "Weavers of Webs: A Portrait of Young Women on the Net." Electronic Journal of Virtual Culture 2.3 (1994). Online. Internet. 31 Mar. 1997. Available: ftp://mbdu04.redc.marshall.edu/pub/ejvc/KAPLAN.V2N3
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Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace." Voice 21 Dec. 1993: 36-42.
Miller, Laura. "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier." Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. Ed. James Brook and Iain A. Boal. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1995: 49-57.
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. "The Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier (or The Chicano Interneta). Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Ed. Lynn Hershman Leeson. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1996. 173-79.
Ullman, Ellen. "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life." Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. Ed. James Brook and Iain A. Boal. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1995: 131-43.
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Brook, James, and Iain A. Boal, eds. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1995. HM221 .R47 1995
Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Bluff. Trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1990. T14 .E4951 1990
Hardison, O. B. , Jr. Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twenthieth Century. New York: Penguin, 1989. CB478 .H37 1989
Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. QA76.9.H85 H45 1993
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Vintage Books, 1992. T14.5 .P67 1992.
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Faigley, Lester. "Literacy After the Revolution." College Composition and Communication 48.1 (1997): 30-43.
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