Passions Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies [Paperback]

Gail Hawisher (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0874212588 | ISBN-13: 978-0874212587 | Publication Date: February 1, 1999 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Avoiding both technophilia and technophobia, [the essays] admirably negotiate, and rigorously examine, the problems and hopes associated with education's embrace of new telecommunications technologies -- D. Diane Davis, University of Iowa, 1999

Composition studies can boast many fine collections of essays . . . but none attempt the kind of careful (that is, committed) critique of the field's very assumptions and out-of-awareness practices that this volume, in its entirety, undertakes. -- Nancy Kaplan, University of Baltimore, 1999

In presenting a range of styles and subjects, the text replicates the state of technology: it is a popular and scholarly medium, playful and serious, personal and professional; it combines text and graphic images and experiments with new media and new combinations of media. -- Lisa Gerrard, UCLA, 1999

About the Author

Cynthia L. Selfe is professor of composition and communication and chair of the humanities department at Michigan Technological University. She is also the founder and co- editor of the journal Computers and Composition.

Gail E. Hawisher is professor of English and director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several books on computers and writing and is co-editor of the journal Computers and Composition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Utah State University Press; 1 edition (February 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874212588
• ISBN-13: 978-0874212587
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #707,790 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)