w-1.14.09

Introduction

w-1.21.09

Cybercultures & Postmodernism

• Read Faigley "Introduction" [BB]
• Read Macek "Defining Cyberculture"
• Read Levy "The Universal without Totality" & "The Social Movement of Cybercultures" [BB]
• Respond to instructor's introductory email

w-1.28.09

Pervasive Metaphors about Technology

• Read Lakoff and Johnson "Metaphors We Live By" [BB]
• Read Selfe, "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" [BB]
• Read Nakamura, "The Social Optics of Race..." [BB]
• Submit PAB #1 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

w-2.4.09

Cyborgs

• Read Haraway "The Cyborg Manifesto" [BB]
• Read Clarke "Cyborgs Unplugged" [BB]
• Read Porter "Why technology matters to writing" [Computers and Composition 20.4]
• Submit PAB #2 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

w-2.11.09

Mobile Technologies

• Read Baron "Are Instant Messages Speech?" [BB]
• Read Johnson-Eilola and Selber "The Changing Shape of Writing" [BB]
• Read Moeller "Wi-Fi Rhetoric" Kairos 9.1
• Submit PAB #3 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

w-2.18.09

Literature & Technologies

• Read Winterson, The Powerbook (entire book)
• Read Read Van Gelder, "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover" [BB]
• Submit PAB #4 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

w-2.25.09

Digital Communities

• Read Rheingold "Introduction"
• Read Silver "Community, Communication, Consumption" [BB]
• Read Brown "'Community' Metaphors Online" [Business Communication Quarterly 65.2]
• Submit Metaphor Analysis as a hard copy to the instructor at the beginning of class

w-3.4.09

Gender & Technology

• Read Kember "CyberLife's Creatures" [BB]
• Read Dibbell "A Rape in Cyberspace" [BB]
• Read Gorkemli "Contending Cartographies of Rhetoric" [Computers and Composition Online]
• Submit PAB #5 to the Blackboard Discussion Board by the beginning of class

w-3.11.09

Spring Break–No class

w-3.18.09

Race & Technology

• Read Banks's Race, Rhetoric, and Technology (entire book)
• Read McKee "YOUR VIEWS SHOWED YOUR TRUE IGNORANCE!!" [Computers and Composition 19.4]
• Read Knadler "E-Racing difference in E-Space" [Computers and Composition 18.3]
• Read McGruder The Boondocks [BB]

w-3.25.09

Research Methodology Overview

• Read McKee & DeVoss "Introduction" [DWR]
• Read Banks & Eble "Digital Space, Online Environments, and Human Participant Research" [DWR]
• Read Rickly "Messy Contexts" [DWR]
• Submit Demonstration of Application as a hard copy to instructor at the beginning of class
• Note  Tuesday, March 31, 2008 is the last day to drop classes

w-4.1.09

Postmodern/Feminist Methodologies

• Read Porter & Sullivan [BB]
• Read DePew "Through the Eyes of Reserchers, Rhetors, and Audiences" [DWR]
• Read Romberger "An Ecofeminist Methodology" [DWR]
• Read Blair & Tully "Whose Research is It, Anyways?" [DWR]

w-4.8.09

Other Research Considerations

• Read Sapienza "Ethos and Research Positionality..." [DWR]
• Read Smith "Researching Hybrid Literacies" [DWR]
• Read Geisler and Slatterly "Capturing the Activity of Digital Writing" [DWR]
• Read Blythe "Coding Digital Texts and Multimedia" [DWR]

w-4.15.09

Workshop

• Submit IRB Application as a hard copy to instructor at the beginning of class

w-4.22.09

Presentations

• Present Multimodal Argument

w-4.29.09

Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns

• Submit Multimodal Argument with Rhetorical Statement on a disk/drive or through an emailed URL on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 by 3pm