1:15pm-2:30
Julie Kearney
Penn State Harrisburg
“Things you might wanna think about”: Negotiating Exposure in a Writing Classroom Community of Bloggers
This presentation considers the blogging conflict between personal expression and professional presentation negotiated by students and the instructor in a “Writing for the Web” course.
Session B.7
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Oui, We Wii: How Multiple “Identitiis” are Shaping our Digital Communicative Acts
Humanities 104A
Friday, October 17, 2008
Session C.2
8:00 am – 9:15AM
Rik Hunter
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Writing WoWWiki: Towards a New Media, Post-Process, Teaching “About” Writing Pedagogy
Transferring writing technologies of the Web to the classroom requires an accounting of the activity systems wherein these writing processes are “played out” (Russell,1999).
Session D. 3
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
The New Play of Composing
Chair: Collin Gifford Brooke
Syracuse University
The “new work of composing” happens most crucially behind the scenes; we argue that this work is generated by processes that are more playful and looser than those typically associated with ³work.² Emerging technologies challenge us to think beyond “works” or products to the information ecologies we inhabit as we produce, circulate, and receive them. These new ecologies reward the “play” of composing as much as, if not more than, they do “work.”
Session E.4
4:15 PM to 5:45 PM
Performance, Play, and New Media
Chair: Eric Leake
University of Louisville
Jacqueline McLeod Rogers
University of Winnipeg
Beyond Orality, Literacy, Cyberdiscursivity: the I Am of [IM]timacy
In my presentation, I want to define four of the [emerging and dynamic] conventions of IM (instant message) discourse, considering how it can be understood as having characteristics that differentiate it from earlier communication media and from other computer- mediated communication.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Session F.
8:00AM-9:15AM
Amelia Herb
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Re)search Methods: Where is the Composition Teacher in the New Millennium?
How can we, as scholars and composition pedagogues, help our students search the web and online scholarly databases and indices more effectively for the “new work of composing”?
Session G. 4
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
Kent State University
Kent State University
Emily Dillon
Kent State University
Dee Awad
Kent State University
Jessica Heffner
Kent State University
Based on a 3-year+ research project, the research team panelists argue that new media forms – specifically, Instant Messaging, Text Messaging, and Facebook – constitute a new and specific language variety. While such writing is often characterized as error-ridden, “contentless,” and even dangerous, we argue that it is in fact testament to the vitality of both the English language and the young people who enact it.
2. Read Ian Saphira’s ”When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2008/04/27/AR2008042702213.html
4. Read Northwestern University Journalism blogpost http://medillprojects.blogspot.com/2007/04/facebook-leading-online-academic.html
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