CW2001 Program - Computers and Writing

Saturday
10:00 — 11:30 Session G.1
Computers & Writing in the New Millennium:
Will the Odyssey Continue ‘til 2010
RB 125
Doug Eyman, moderator
Steven Krause
The End of Computers and Writing:
Benefactors and Victims of Success
I believe the implications of this are that while we should be celebrating
our success, we should also be preparing ourselves to think more
broadly than our own subdiscipline.
Nick Carbone
Computers and Writing Will Always Exist
I don’t agree that computers and writing will become redundant, or
that computers will become invisible, not in terms of scholarship or in
the value of this conference anyway. Writing will change because of
computers, and our field’s intellectual future is there, in understanding
that change and figuring out how best to teach given the change.
Trish Harris
Computers, Writing, and the Limit of Ubiquity
The moment of resistance is past, and in the not-too-distant future we will
be defined by our activity and practice rather than the soon-ubiquitous
level of technical proficiency or soon-irrelevant divide between CR and CW.
Bill Hart-Davidson
Computers Writing:
Rewriting our Disciplinary Source Code
Those who study at the intersection of the two most powerful communication
technologies the world has known — “computers” and “writing” — will be
called for their expertise to these new cross-disciplinary, inter-institutional,
and international efforts to transform our networks of information into
social networks.
Ted Nellen
Scholarship Will Be Best Served on the Computer
We are now on the threshold of actually realizing the pedagogical dreams
of Dewey as they have been further defined by Gardner and ultimately
practiced by those of us who use computers and the Internet in our work.
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