CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

3:45 — 5:00 Session D.5
(Web) Weapons of Mass Destruction and/or Creation
RB 284
Rich Rice, moderator
Katherine Wills
Kosovo:
The Uses of the Internet for War
We view and discuss the Web sites that position factions, defy bans,
and volley virtual opposition. Can one make sense of “data conflicts”
What are the technical limitations/benefits of Internet use during war
Anthony Edgington
We Didn’t Start the Fire, But We Have to Put it Out:
The Threat of Flaming in the Electronic Classroom
By offering various classroom narratives and personal experiences, this
presentation explores issues surrounding flaming within the classroom,
the university, and academia itself.
Rodney Dick
An “Ideology of Ease”:
Some Implications of Using Web-Design Software
Drawing on Selfe’s (1999) Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First
Century, I argue that such software emphasizes “technological literacy”
— the ability to perform a task, while glossing over the need for “critical
technological literacy” — a critical awareness of how technology shapes
our lives.
Monica Luebke
Constructing Contributing Members of Society:
Computers in Correctional Institutions
An examination of the broad implications of computers and inmate
labor as well as the specific implications of actual practices in using
such labor is necessary before we can decide if computers can be a
weapon of construction in this context.
Susan Popham
Mysteries, Mayhem and Postmodernist Theories:
Hypertext Web Constructions
This presentation describes the work of students in a computerized firstyear
writing course as they create hypertext mysteries — unbounded,
nonlinear, nonconclusive-based on real-life controversies.
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