Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options

by Inman, James A.; Reed, Cheryl; Sands, Peter; Sands, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780805841473
• ISBN10: 0805841474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Explores new and important ways for humanities scholars to collaborate across disciplines via electronic media, and offers models for collaborative interaction.

Table of Contents

A Word to the Fore	ix
'Myka Vielstimmig
Preface: Issues and Options for Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: A Framework	xvii
James A. Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands
PART I: THEORIES OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION	1	(88)
1 Collaborative Selves, Collaborative Worlds: Identity in the Information Age	3	(10)
Sherry Turkle
2 What's So Democratic About CMC?: The Rhetoric of Techno-Literacy in the New Millennium	13	(22)
Jami Carlacio
3 Computer-Mediated Communication as Reflective Rhetoric-in-Action: Dialogic Interaction, Technology, and Cross-Curricular Thinking	35	(14)
Rebecca J. Rickly
4 Electracy for the Ages: Collaboration With the Past and Future	49	(16)
James A. Inman
5 Collaborating Across Contexts: Rethinking the Local and the Global, Theory and Practice	65	(14)
Radhika Gajjala and Annapurna Mamidipudi
Response: Stephen Tchudi	79	(10)
PART II: STUDENT COLLABORATION AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA	89	(122)
6 New Technology, Newer Teachers: Computer Resources and Collaboration in Literature and Composition	91	(20)
Nancy Knowles and M. Wendy Hennequin
7 Voices Merged in Collaborated Conversation: The Peer Critiquing Computer Project	111	(22)
Mary E. Fakler and Joan E. Ferisse
8 Reentry Women Students' Online Collaboration Patterns: Synchronous Conferencing in a Basic Writing Class	133	(18)
Alice Trape
9 Using a Virtual Museum for Collaborative Teaching, Research, and Service	151	(16)
Jo B. Paoletti, Mary Corbin Sies, and Virginia Jenkins
10 Across the Cyber Divide: Connecting Freshman Composition Students to the 21st Century	167	(20)
Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan and Simone M. Gers
11 Web Writing and Service Learning: A Call for Training as a Final Deliverable	187	(10)
Christina L. Prell
Response: Bill Friedheim	197	(14)
PART III: FACULTY COLLABORATION AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA	211	(72)
12 Writers Anomalous: Wiring Faculty Research	213	(14)
Cheryl Reed and Dawn M. Formo
13 What's in a Name? Defining Electronic Community	227	(14)
Donna N. Sewell
14 Cow Tale: A Story of Transformation in Two MOO Communities	241	(14)
Karen McComas
15 The Collaboration That Created the Kolb-Proust Archive: Humanities Scholarship, Computing, and the Library	255	(12)
Caroline Szylowicz and Jo Kibbee
Response: T. Lloyd Benson	267	(16)
PART IV: ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION AND THE FUTURE	283	(94)
16 Imagining Future(s): Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Emerging Technologies	285	(10)
Timothy Allen Jackson
17 Critical and Dynamic Literacy in the Computer Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between School Literacy and Workplace Literacy	295	(16)
Paul J. Morris II
18 Collaborative Research, Collaborative Thinking: Lessons From the Linux Community	311	(10)
Tari Fanderclai
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	321	(14)
Peter Sands
20 Imaging Florida: A Model Interdisciplinary Collaboration by the Florida Research Ensemble	335	(28)
John Craig Freeman
Response: Randall Bass	363	(14)
Afterword: Anne Ruggles Gere	377	(8)
Notes on Contributors	385	(8)
References	393	(18)
Author Index	411	(6)
Subject Index	417