Electronic collaboration in the humanities : issues and options / edited by James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, Peter Sands.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inman, James A.

Reed, Cheryl, 1952-

Sands, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States.

Humanities.

Digital humanities.

Humanities--Technological innovations.

Humanities--Study and teaching (Graduate).

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Summary:

This volume provides an informed view of how information technology is shaping the contemporary humanities. The first to explore new and important ways for humanities scholars to collaborate across disciplines via electronic media, this book redefines el

Contents:

Preface: Issues and Options for Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: A Framework / James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, Peter Sands xvii

Part I Theories of Electronic Collaboration 1

1 Collaborative Selves, Collaborative Worlds: Identity in the Information Age / Sherry Turkle 3

2 What's So Democratic About CMC?: The Rhetoric of Techno-Literacy in the New Millennium / Jami Carlacio 13

3 Computer-Mediated Communication as Reflective Rhetoric-in-Action: Dialogic Interaction, Technology, and Cross-Curricular Thinking / Rebecca J. Rickly 35

4 Electracy for the Ages: Collaboration With the Past and Future / James A. Inman 49

5 Collaborating Across Contexts: Rethinking the Local and the Global, Theory and Practice / Radhika Gajjala, Annapurna Mamidipudi 65

Part II Student Collaboration and Electronic Media 89

6 New Technology, Newer Teachers: Computer Resources and Collaboration in Literature and Composition / Nancy Knowles, M. Wendy Hennequin 91

7 Voices Merged in Collaborated Conversation: The Peer Critiquing Computer Project / Mary E. Fakler, Joan E. Perisse 111

8 Reentry Women Students' Online Collaboration Patterns: Synchronous Conferencing in a Basic Writing Class / Alice Trupe 133

9 Using a Virtual Museum for Collaborative Teaching, Research, and Service / Jo B. Paoletti, Mary Corbin Sies, Virginia Jenkins 151

10 Across the Cyber Divide: Connecting Freshman Composition Students to the 21st Century / Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan, Simone M. Gers 167

11 Web Writing and Service Learning: A Call for Training as a Final Deliverable / Christina L. Prell 187

Part III Faculty Collaboration and Electronic Media 211

12 Writers Anomalous: Wiring Faculty Research / Cheryl Reed, Dawn M. Formo 213

13 What's in a Name? Defining Electronic Community / Donna N. Sewell 227

14 Cow Tale: A Story of Transformation in Two MOO Communities / Karen McComas 241

15 The Collaboration That Created the Kolb-Proust Archive: Humanities Scholarship, Computing, and the Library / Caroline Szylowicz, Jo Kibbee 255

Part IV Electronic Collaboration and the Future 283

16 Imagining Future(s): Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Emerging Technologies / Timothy Allen Jackson 285

17 Critical and Dynamic Literacy in the Computer Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between School Literacy and Workplace Literacy / Paul J. Morris II 295

18 Collaborative Research, Collaborative Thinking: Lessons From the Linux Community / Tari Fanderclai 311

19 Current and Future Research in the Production and Analysis of Electronic Text in the Humanities: Bridging Our Own "Two Cultures" With Integrated, Empirical Studies / Peter Sands 321

20 Imaging Florida: A Model Interdisciplinary Collaboration by the Florida Research Ensemble / John Craig Freeman 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-410) and indexes.

ISBN:

0805841466

0805841474

OCLC:

49775422