The PhD in Texts and Technology

Hello all,

More stuff to do for Monday:

Our guest speaker, Kathlene
Ferris, is the production manager for the Online Archive of New Mexico, which
is modeled after the Online Archive of California—I think. Kathlene
is now working on a partnership with Colorado.
She’ll probably talk about this. She also works with the Center for Southwest
Research.  So—I think we should take a
look at the first three URLs listed below  for sure. Then become familiar with at
least one of the other sites I’ve listed here. This is by no means a
well-researched list of URLs—I suspect Kathlene will
have a much better list. But we can discuss what we find and raise questions.
If you have something to contribute, please do.
Below the URLs I’ve pasted in a couple of CFPs (calls for proposals) and other various things to give
you a sense of what academic new media people are interested in. Were the Penn State
deadlines not so early in the semester, you could have issued proposals for
that conference. So scroll on down below the URL list.

The CFP for CCCC (Conference on College Composition
and Communication) is out but I cannot find it. Take a look instead at the
online proposal form so that you can see what submitting looks like.  http://www.ncte.org/library/files/CCCC/convention/4C_singles.pdf

Archive URLs

http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/
Online Archive of New Mexico

http://elibrary.unm.edu/cswr/
Center for Southwest Research (UNM)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
Online Archive of California 

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
Digital Humanities

http://www.archive.org/index.php
Internet Archives

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/  
American Speech Bank

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Repositories of Primary Sources

http://www.archives.gov/research/index.html
National Archives and Record Administration

http://www.rlg.org
RLG (whatever it stands for)

http://www.worldcat.org/
WorldCAT

_______________________________________
CFPs
, Graduate Programs, Job Descriptions
PENN STATE CONFERENCE
Rhetorics

and Technologies - 20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
Composition*
*July 8 - 10, 2007*
*Call for Papers due: February 15, 2007*
The 2007 Rhetorics and
Technologies Conference* program committee
invites you to participate in the biennial Penn State
Conference on
Rhetoric and Composition to be held July 8 - 10, 2007 on the
Penn State
University Park campus. Paper submissions (500-word
abstracts) will be
accepted until February 15, 2007.
For abstract submission and conference details, visit:
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/rhetoric
Featured speakers will include Marilyn Cooper, Michigan
Technological
University; Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson University; M. Jimmie
Killingsworth
,
Texas A&M University; David Kirkland, New York
University; Carolyn Miller, North Carolina State University;
James
Porter, Michigan State University; Geoffrey Sirc, University of
Minnesota; and Anne Wysocki,
Michigan Technological University.
For more than two decades, the Penn State Conference on
Rhetoric and
Composition has been an important forum for scholars
interested in
rhetoric and the teaching of writing. This year the
conference is
celebrating its twentieth anniversary of providing
participants with the
opportunity to share ideas with leading scholars and to
enjoy the
intimate and informal setting of The Nittany
Lion Inn on the Penn State
University

Park campus located in State College,
 Pennsylvania, USA.
Direct queries to Stuart Selber
(selber@psu.edu), conference chair. 

airos
:
A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to
announce the release of Issue 11.2 for Spring 2007. The
Spring issue
of Kairos is traditionally the
Computers and Writing conference issue,
but since the merger of the Features and CoverWeb
sections last year,
this issue provides both remediated
C&W presentations along with
regular, open-call submissions. The spirit of all the texts
published
here, however, is certainly tailored to a Computers and
Writing theme.
This issue contains articles from Rich Rice, Beth Brunk-Chavez and
Shawn J. Miller; James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker; Steve
Wiley and
Mark Root-Wiley; and Xiaoye You.
It features interviews with Kathleen
Blake Yancey and Vincent Woods as well as reviews of three
recent
works in the field.
We invite you to view the issue at
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/index.html and to
discuss it on
Kairosnews
,
our sister site, at http://www.kairosnews.org.
After you
have done so, we hope that you will consider submitting
nominations
for the annual Kairos awards or
consider submitting a proposal for the
Kairos
 re-design project. 

MERLOT
Conference
From: Jennie Dautermann
<dauterjp@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re:MERLOT International
Conference emphasized humanities in August
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:59:07 -0500
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online
Teaching - MERLOT
Seventh International Conference
Jazzing IT up with MERLOT, New Orleans, Aug 7-10, 2007.
The MIC07 conference theme, "Jazzing IT up with
MERLOT," recognizes the
collaborative efforts within disciplines and the education
community around
the World to enhance teaching and learning through the use
of Instructional
Technology. Conference attendees span all disciplines and
the continuum from
novice to expert in the development and use of online
resources and online
learning objects.
Proposals are due Jan 29. CFP is at:
http://mic07.merlot.org/conference/about.htm
Jennie Dautermann
SUNY TLT 

In 2007, Kairos: Rhetoric,
Technology, Pedagogy will be changing from
its current static format on the Web into a dynamic online
journal
powered by Drupal content
management software. As part of this change
and as part of our on-going 10th Anniversary Celebration,
the Kairos
editorial staff is issuing a call for proposals to re-design
Kairos in
both appearance and interface and requesting applications
for the
position of Interface Editor(s).
The re-design requires revision of the navigation for the
journal as a
whole and for specific issues, the layout and presentation
of content
and navigation, and the appearance of the journal (colors,
fonts,
spacing, use of images); however, the current Kairos logo should be
included. We are especially interested in designs which
break out of
the "CMS mold" and provide innovative yet usable
design choices. For
further information, please visit http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/kairoscfd.pdf.
The Interface Editor (or Co-Editors) would be responsible
for
implementing the new Kairos design
and continuing development and
maintenance of the Kairos site. We
invite applications from
individuals or teams at any academic level as well as those
outside of
academia. For further information, please visit
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/kairoscie.pdf.
The deadline for submissions is FEBRUARY 1, 2007.
Questions and applications can be sent to the Kairos editorial team at
kairosed@technorhetoric.net 

The
PhD in Texts and Technology
The University of Central Florida Department of English's
PhD in Texts
and Technology is an innovative interdisciplinary program
combining
scholarly study, creative production, and critical
assessment of digital
texts. The curriculum emphasizes theory and practice in new
media
supplemented by historical grounding in pre-digital media
and textual
studies. Faculty members offer expertise in fields ranging
from
technical and scientific communication to cultural studies,
digital
media, film, networked art, histories of technology and
writing with
computers.
This unique program prepares students for research,
teaching, and
program development. Recent dissertation topics include
narrative
theory and knowledge management software design, images of
NASA in
popular culture, technology and discourse in army
publications, impacts
of technology on learning processes, disability theory and
accessibility
in web design, loop-based cinematic techniques in early
digital cinema,
digital visualization technologies and the role of the
medical patient,
and the role of domestic technology in women's journals.

ONG
Session
From: John Walter <walterj@slu.edu>
Subject: CFP: Ong Sessions at
Computers and Writing 2007 (Corrected)
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:27:25 -0500
Dear all,
As you may know, I've organizing conference sessions for
both the upcoming
MLA and CCCC to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the
publication of Walter
J. Ong's Orality
and Literacy (1982-2007). I'd like to finish this
celebration off with one or two sessions at Computers and
Writing 2007
(Wayne
 State University,
17-20 May 2007), centered around the theme "Orality
and Literacy 2.0: Orality-Literacy
Contrasts and the Next 25 Years." Since
Orality
 and Literacy is itself
broad in scope, I want to keep the list of
possible topics broad as well. Potential topics include:
*classification and folksonomy
*digital culture
*digital literacies
*digital rhetoric
*digital textuality
*digital writing
*digitization
*ecological approaches to culture, knowledge, and technology
(including but
not limited to information ecology and media ecology)
*embodied cognition
*hermeneutics in the digital era
*materiality and media
*media dynamics
*medium theory
*memory
*network theory
*oralism
*the organization of the sensorium
in its relation to media
*performance studies
*phenomenology and noetics
*texts and/as technology
*visualism and visual culture
 While Orality and Literacy's
25th anniversary is the occasion for the
session(s), presentations need not adhere closely to that
text, although
familiarity with Ong's work on orality-literacy contrasts and a nod to those
works would be appropriate. What I am particularly interested
in is the
state of orality-literacy
contrasts now and possibilities for the future.
Although not required, I would also like to include some
presentations which
make specific connections with the conference theme of
Virtual Urbanism.
 For more more information
about Computers and Writing 2007 and the
conference theme, please see http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/cw07/
<http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/%7Ecw07/cw07/>, and
those interested in
learning more about Ong's work on orality-literacy contrasts may find my
bibliography of use http://www.jpwalter.com/scholarship/Ong/ongbib.html .
 Please send inquiries and abstracts (no more than 300
words) by December
1, 2006 to John Walter <walterj@slu.edu>.
John Walter

CFP:
Computers and Writing 2007: Virtual Urbanism
> May 17-20, 2007
> Wayne State University
> Detroit,
 Michigan
>
> Deadline for proposals: midnight, December 20, 2006.
> Website for proposal submission and information:
> http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~cw07/cw07
>
> Featured Speakers:
> Geoffrey Sirc, Professor of
English, University of Minnesota
> Helen Liggett, Professor of
Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University
> Richard Doyle, Professor of English, Penn State
University
>
> The conference theme juxtaposes computers and writing
with 
> contemporary city life, representations of the urban,
and the virtual 
> encounters we create when technology and textuality are introduced 
> into our places of work, study, and pleasure. Detroit, Michigan
offers 
> a unique opportunity to consider the effects of
rhetoric and writing 
> on the urban experience, an experience constantly shaped
and reshaped 
> by emerging and existing technological issues, from the
birth of the 
> assembly line at the Ford Motor Company to the
introduction of techno 
> music. Today, new kinds of projects, like the New Center's
Digital 
> Detroit and Wayne State
 University's concept of TechTown, are creating 
> new kinds of urban experiences.
>
> In addition to the featured keynote speakers, Computers
and Writing 
> 2007 will feature local artists, webloggers,
and activists who explore 
> the assemblages of technology, writing, and city space.
Through the 
> participation of keynote speakers, featured guests, and
conference 
> presenters and participants, Computers and Writing 2007
will integrate 
> issues of virtual urbanism with those concerns writing
and rhetoric 
> professionals face today.
>
> Participants may speak on any topic normally relevant
to computers and 
> writing, but we will encourage papers which speak to
the issues raised 
> by the juxtaposition of the urban, technology, and
space.
>
> We encourage participants to generalize outward from Detroit to think 
> creatively about relationships among city spaces,
writing, and 
> technology.
>
> While all submissions will be considered, we encourage
submissions in 
> response to the following:
>
> * What are the relationships
between place and digital writing?
> * What are the places we write in and communicate
within?
> * How has the urban changed, maintained, complicated 
> understandings of technology?
> * What are the new writing spaces for pedagogy and
research?
> * What do we mean by virtuality
or space?
> * How has the university become or not become a virtual
space of 
> learning?
> * What kinds of virtual pedagogies can we imagine for
our future 
> work in the profession?
>
> Following previous Computers and Writing conferences,
we strongly 
> encourage proposals for workshops, which will take
place on May 17.
>
> We will also accept proposals for
> "@Get Info: A Preview of Conference Papers at the
CW07"
> A successful event at CW06, @Get Info gives presenters
the chance to 
> sell, seduce, enchant, thrill, educate, influence, and
persuade 
> conference participants to attend their session - all
in a 60-second 
> "show and tell."
>
> During that time, presenters can do anything they wish
to encourage 
> attendance at their sessions, from showing video clips,
animation, 
> still images, Power Point slides, and sound files, to
performing skits 
> and routines. Presenters who attempt to go beyond their
allotted time 
> are given the "buzzer" and sent off the stage
by the moderators.
>
> We look forward to seeing you in Detroit.
>
> J.Rice
> Assistant Professor of English
> Wayne
 State University
> http://www.english.wayne.edu/People/faculty/ricej/index2.html
> http://www.ydog.net/
>
>

BOOK
LIST
Folks,
a new set of book reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] from
the Resource
 Center for Cyberculture Studies for December 2006:
1. Allegories of Communication: Intermedial
Concerns from Cinema to the
Digital
Editors: John Fullerton & Jan Olsson
Publisher: John Libbey Publishing,
2004
Review 1: Kristen Daly
2. Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature
Editors: Jan Van Looy & Jan Baetens
Publisher: Leuven University
Press, 2003
Review 1: Mary Leonard
3. Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media
Editors: Mary E. Hocks & Michelle R. Kendrick
Publisher: MIT Press, 2003
Review 1: Vika Zafrin
Review 2: Alan Razee
Author Response: Mary Hocks
4. Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional
Worlds
Author: Jesper Juul
Publisher: MIT Press, 2005
Review 1: Curt Carbonell
Review 2: Randy Nichols
Author Response: Jesper Juul
5. How Images Think
Author: Ron Burnett
Publisher: MIT Press, 2004
Review 1: Leanne Stuart Pupchek
Author Response: Ron Burnett
6. Internet Politics: States, Citizens and New Communication
Technologies
Author: Andrew Chadwick
Publisher: Oxford
 University Press, 2006
Review 1: Viviane Serfaty
Author Response: Andrew Chadwick
7. Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of
Literacy from
the United States
Authors: Cynthia L. Selfe &
Gail E. Hawisher
Publisher: Lawrence
Erlbaum, 2004
Review 1: Lisa A. Kirby
Author Response: Cynthia L. Selfe
& Gail E. Hawisher
8. Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia
Editors: Chris Berry, Fran Martin, Audrey Yue
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2003
Review 1: Terri He
Author Response: Chris Berry, Fran Martin, & Audrey Yue
9. My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in
Transition
Author: Geert Lovink
Publisher: V2/NAi Publishers, 2003
Review 1: Michel Bauwens
10. Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic
Engagement
Editor: Gerard Hauser, Amy Grim
Publisher: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 2004
Review 1: David Schulz
11. The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information
Society
Author: Jan A. G. M. van Dijk
Publisher: Sage, 2005
Review 1: Alan Zaremba
12. The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
Author: Vincent Mosco
Publisher: MIT Press, 2004
Review 1: Dale Bradley
Author Response: Vincent Mosco
13. The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory
Author: Thomas Foster
Publisher: University
 of Minnesota Press, 2005
Review 1: Michele Braun
Review 2: Kim Toffoletti
Author Response: Thomas Foster
14. Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive
Fiction
Author: Nick Montfort
Publisher: MIT Press, 2003
Review 1: Russell Mills
Review 2: T. Michael Roberts
Author Response: Nick Montfort
enjoy
.
david

silver
university

 of san francisco
http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/
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LETTER
FROM HOME
ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing)
listserv posting and response by one of UNM’s own: Andrew Mara:
Subject: Re: rewriting the teaching of writing
(profession)
From: Andrew Mara <Andrew.Mara@ndsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:24:37 -0500
I personally think this is the CENTRAL issue in our
profession as 
academics and practitioners. There is so much out there to
choose. 
A few people in our field working on this issue include Johndan 
Johnson-Eilola and Stuart Selber (Johndan's datacloud addresses the 
issue of professional identity in a digital workspace
directly, and 
Selber's
 Multiliteracies is a good primer on a lot of the issues) I 
would also recommend reading The New Media Reader (MIT
Press, edited 
by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort). Gregory Ulmer's work to 
get some good theoretical and performative
ruminations on the issue 
of electracy (pretty much all of
his later work addresses this 
issue). There are also quite a few people in Computers and
Writing 
who are working on this issue as well (Collin Brooke and
Jeff Rice, 
just to name a few).
This is pretty much still blue sky stuff, and I, for one,
would 
welcome more people working on this issue. I'm just selfish
in that 
way.
Hope this gives you a few directions to go.
Best,
Andy
. . . .in responses to the message below:
On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:04 PM, A Lamberti
wrote:
> Greetings, ATTW-er--
>
> In the past few years, I've found myself spending an
> increasing amount of class time discussing digitized
> forms of writing, especially during my Scientific and
> Technical Writing course; my students tend to be
> fairly experienced in blogging,
gaming, and Web site
> creation, so their interest in the topic is strong. I
> also try to direct our discussions to issues of the
> digital divide, accessibility, etc.
>
> My change in curriculum focus
has made me realize that
> while I've read a great deal about how to teach
> digitized writing, and about the digital divide as one
> consequence of digitized writing, I haven't
> encountered as much literature about other
> consequences. Specifically, I'm interested in how the
> teaching of digitized writing has reshaped the writing
> education _profession_--who we are now as writing
> teachers, how we now understand ourselves and our
> missions, etc. Has anyone come across literature on
> this aspect? I'd enjoy hearing about reading
> suggestions and recommendations.
>
> Thank you!
> Adrienne Lamberti
> Professional and Technical Writing Program Coordinator
> University
 of Northern Iowa 

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