Electronic Literacy Links

English 883C: Electronic Literacy | Department of English | The Ohio State University

Electronic Literacy Links

This page consists of links to web sites variously related to the history and complex functional and cultural relationships among symbol systems; textual artifacts; modes of reading, writing, and reasoning; and the institutions and social relations that define literate culture. Each of those rubrics (and the sections in the list below that mirror them) is deeply intertwined with the others. Like nodes in a network, they offer starting places and perspectives from which to explore and view the same territory.

As are most such lists, this one is idiosyncratic, the result of serendipitous encounters and necessarily incomplete Internet searches (life is short, the web is vast, and bandwidth is narrow). The model of literacy represented in the headings is as important to this course as what lies beyond the links. Please feel welcome to propose new or altered headings and explanations, annotations to the sites listed here, or new sites altogether.

- What's Here -

Artifacts | Interfaces | Cultural Constructions

Artifacts: Embodied Symbols, Texts, and Literate Practices

This group of links focuses on the symbols systems with which we write and code digital texts; the enabling technologies associated with digital media and the artifacts we create with them; and the formal institutions and material spaces that we create to control and direct the dissemination of those artifacts.

Material History of Writing

Voice of the Shuttle: Technology of Writing: An essential starting place for studies of writing technology, the Voice of the Shuttle site is a door to many, many other resources online.
Evolution of the Newspaper

Electronic Publishing

ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing '97: "New Models and Opportunitiies." 14-16 April 1997, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Abstracts

Organizations

The Alliance for Computers and Writing

Interfaces: Embodied Reading, Writing, and Reasoning

This list highlights the human(s) in the loop--how we read, write, and reason with digital media.

Text Analysis

Conc: a concordance generator for the Macintosh
TACTWeb 0.5 Home Page

HTML Authoring

Beginner's Guide to HTML
Composing Good HTML
Design of HTML Pages to Increase Their Accessibility to Users With Disabilities
WWW Icons
Selena Sol's Public Domain CGI Script Archive and Resource Library
World Wide Web FAQ
The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information
LISTSERV Home Page
Comserve Gopher
The comp.fonts Home Page
NMSU Mac Pointers

Reading and Writing Hypertext

As We May Think
Hypertext Review
Hypertext Theory As If the WWWeb Matters
Hypertext and Renaissance Studies
Collaborative Hypertext Fiction
The search for hypertext fiction
Writing Hypertext Books
Hypertext at Brown
A Web Storybase

Searching for Information

Biographical Dictionary
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
ABELL: Home Page
WPA Life Histories--Home Page
Welcome to AskERIC
OhioLINK - Oxford English Dictionary Search
OhioLINK - Research Databases
Communication and Rhetoric Information Sources
Current Cites
Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database

Practices: Electronic Literacy in Cultural Contexts

The following links double back to the institutions of the first section on this page, but the emphasis here is on the emergent phenomena of cyberculture, the self- and social-constructions that results from (inter)acting with/in digital media.