m-5.15.06

• Introduction
• Introduce course
• Biographic surveys
• Take attendance
• Calendar
• Assignments
• Readings
• Discuss Rhetorical Principles
• Watch Matrix movie and discuss metaphors

w-5.17.06

Postmodernism, Power, and the Media

• Read over the syllabus and assignments thoroughly; in a Blackboard discussion thread (sent by 5pm today) respond to the syllabus; you may want to address the following:
  • how has what you read compared to your expectations for this course
  • what was confusing about the syllabus
  • what was fair or unfair about the syllabus? Why?
  • any other comments

  You are encouraged to respond to your peers' posts as well.

• Read Faigley, "Introduction" [BB]
• Read Jordan, "Cyberspace and the Matrix" [BB]
• Read Selfe, "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" [BB]
• Read Nakamura, "'Where Do You Want to Go Today?'" [BB]

m-5.22.06

Metaphors of Technology

• Read Winterson, The Powerbook (entire book)
• Exercise
• Submit Proposal to the instructor as a hard copy at the beginning of class

w-5.24.06

Cyborgs

• Read Haraway, "The Cyborg Manifesto" [BB]
• Read Clarke, "Cyborgs Unplugged" [BB]
• Read Romano, "The Egalitarian Narrative" [Computers & Composition, 10.3–online version]
• Read Van Gelder, "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover" [BB]
• Article Review: Erin and Larry

m-5.29.06

Memorial Day–No Class

w-5.31.06

Race & Technology

 

• Read Banks's Race, Rhetoric, and Technology (entire book)
• Read Blackmon "'But I'm Just White'" [BB]
• Read McGruder The Boondocks [BB]
• Article Review: Linda and BC

m-6.5.06

Gender & Technology

• Read Hawisher & Sullivan, "Fleeting Images" [BB]
• Read Dibbell "A Rape in Cyberspace" [BB]
• Read Reilly, "Sexuality and Technologies" [Computers and Composition, 21.3]
• Article Review: Ashley and Denise

w-6.7.06

Digital Communities

• Read Monroe, "Reconsidering the Terms of Debate" [BB]
• Read Silver "Community, Communication, Consumption" [BB]
• Read Gurak & Logie, "Internet Protests" [BB]
• Article Review: Tanya and Jessica

m-6.12.06

Researching Digital Writing

• Read DeWitt, "Inventing Invention" [BB]
• Read Hine, "The Virtual Objects of Ethnography" [BB]
• Read Charney, "Empiricism is Not a Four Letter Word" [College Composition and Communication, 47.4]
• Read Johnson, "When All Else Fails..." [BB]
• Submit DOA to the instructor as a hard copy (or appropriate media) by the beginning of class
• Bring one of the following articles to class (Silver, Hawisher & Sullivan, Blackmon, Romano)

w-6.14.06

Critical Qualitative Research

• Read Porter & Sullivan, "Working Across Methodological Interfaces" [BB]
• Read Thatcher, "Situating L2 Writing in Global Communication Technologies" [Computers and Composition, 22.3]
• Read Takayoshi, "Complicated Women" [Computers and Composition, 17.2]
• Bring laptops

m-6.19.06

Triangulating Data

• Read DePew, "Through the Eyes..." [BB]
• Read McKee, "YOUR VIEWS SHOWED YOUR IGNORANCE!!!" [Computers and Composition, 19.4]
• Read Rouzie, "Conversations and Carrying-on" [College Composition and Communication, 53.2]
• Bring laptops

w-6.21.06

Methodology Project

• Submit Research Proposal to the instructor as a hard copy by the end of class