Composing Media = Composing Embodiment

by Arola, Kristin L.; Wysocki, Anne Frances

• ISBN13: 9780874218800
• ISBN10: 0874218802
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

"What any body is-and is able to do-cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts." ---from the Introduction. Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body-is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment),they havebrought together a powerful set of essays that agree on the need for compositionists-and their students-to engage with a wide range of new media texts. These chapters explore how texts of all varieties mediate and thereby contribute to the human experiences of communication, of self, the body, and composing. Sample assignments and activities exemplify how this exploration might proceed in the writing classroom. Contributors here articulate ways to understand how writing enables the experience of our bodies as selves, and at the same time to see the work of (our) writing in mediating selves to make them accessible to institutional perceptions and constraints. These writers argue that what a body does, and can do, cannot be disentangled from the media we use, nor from the times and cultures and technologies with which we engage. To the discipline of composition, this is an important discussion because it clarifies the impact/s of literacy on citizens, freedoms, and societies. To the classroom, it is important because it helps compositionists to support their students as they enact, learn, and reflect upon their own embodied and embodying writing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Into Between-On Composition in Mediation	p. 1
Media = Embodiment
Drawn Together: Possibilities for Bodies in Words and Pictures	p. 25
Pausing to Reflect: Mass Observation, Blogs, and Composing Everyday Life	p. 43
Authoring Avatars: Gaming, Reading, and Writing Identities	p. 60
How Billie Jean King Became the Center of the Universe	p. 72
Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows	p. 85
Multimodal Methods for Multimodal Literacies: Establishing A Technofeminist Research Identity	p. 97
Writing against Normal: Navigating a Corporeal Turn	p. 110
Activities for Part 1	p. 127
Mediating Bodies ^ Mediated Bodies
Crafting New Approaches to Composition	p. 145
Bodies of Text	p. 162
Whose Body?: Looking Critically at New Interface Designs	p. 174
Queerness, Multimodality, and the Possibilities of Re/Orientation	p. 188
It's My Revolution: Learning to See the Mixedblood	p. 213
Visible Guerrillas	p. 227
Affording New Media: Individuation, Imagination, and the Hope of Change	p. 239
Activities for Part 2	p. 259
Works Cited	p. 269
Index	p. 279
About the Authors	p. 291
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