Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe created a volume that set the agenda in the field of computers and composition scholarship for a decade. The technology changes that scholars of composition studies faced as the new century opened couldn't have been more deserving of passionate study. While we have always used technologies (e.g., the pencil) to communicate with each other, the electronic technologies we now use have changed the world in ways that we have yet to identify or appreciate fully. Likewise, the study of language and literate exchange, even our understanding of terms like literacy, text, and visual, has changed beyond recognition, challenging even our capacity to articulate them.
As Hawisher, Selfe, and their contributors engage these challenges and explore their importance, they "find themselves engaged in the messy, contradictory, and fascinating work of understanding how to live in a new world and a new century." The result is a broad, deep, and rewarding anthology of work still among the standard works of computers and composition study.
INTRODUCTION: The Passions that Mark Us: Teaching, Texts, and Technologies 1(14) Gail E. Hawisher Cynthia L. Selfe PART ONE: Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World 15(114) ONE From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies 15(19) Dennis Baron TWO Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy 34(15) Doug Hesse THREE The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As A Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes 49(17) Sarah J. Sloane FOUR `English at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual 66(23) Gunther Kress FIVE Petals on a Wet, Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay 89(26) Myka Vielstimmig SIX Response: Dropping Bread Crumbs in the Intertextual Forest: Critical Literacy in a Postmodern Age 115(14) Diana George Diane Shoos PART TWO: Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic Age 129(102) SEVEN Beyond Imagination: The Internet and Global Digital Literacy 129(11) Lester Faigley EIGHT Postmodern Pedagogy in Electronic Conversations 140(21) Marilyn Cooper NINE Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines 161(17) James Sosnoski TEN What is Composition...? After Duchamp (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext) 178(27) Geoffrey Sirc ELEVEN Access: The A-Word in Technology Studies 205(16) Charles Moran TWELVE Response: Speaking the Unspeakable About 21st Century Technologies 221(10) Bertram C. Bruce PART THREE: Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World 231(118) THIRTEEN Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique 231(18) James Porter FOURTEEN On Becoming a Woman: Pedagogies of the Self 249(19) Susan Romano FIFTEEN Fleeting Images: Women Visually Writing the Web 268(24) Gail E. Hawisher Patricia A. Sullivan SIXTEEN Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change 292(31) Cynthia L. Selfe SEVENTEEN Into the Next Room 323(14) Carolyn Guyer Dianne Hagaman EIGHTEEN Response: Virtual Diffusion: Ethics, Techne and Feminism at the End of the Cold Millennium 337(12) Cynthia Haynes PART FOUR: Searching for Notions of Our Postmodern Literate Selves in an Electronic World 349(76) NINETEEN Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else? 349(20) Anne Frances Wysocki Johndan Johnson-Eilola TWENTY Family Values: Literacy, Technology, and Uncle Sam 369(18) Joe Amato TWENTY-ONE Technologys Strange, Familiar Voices 387(12) Janet Carey Eldred TWENTY-TWO Beyond Next Before You Once Again: Repossessing and Renewing Electronic Culture 399(19) Michael Joyce TWENTY-THREE Response: Everybodys Elegies 418(7) Stuart Moulthrop WORKS CITED 425(17) CONTRIBUTORS 442(6) INDEX 448
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