Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities : Issues and Options

by Inman; James A.

• ISBN13: 9780805841466
• ISBN10: 0805841466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

This volume provides an informed view of how information technology is shaping the contemporary humanities. It specifically reflects five ideals: *humanities scholars with all levels of access are doing important work with technology; *humanities scholars' projects with technology reflect significant diversity, both across and within disciplinary bounds; *using information technology in the humanities is a continuous conversation; *information technology offers new options for humanities education; and *just as collaboration changes the nature of any project, so does information technology change the nature of collaboration--its speed, character, methods, and possible implementations. The first to explore new and important ways for humanities scholars to collaborate across disciplines via electronic media, this book redefines electronic collaboration; presents insightful models of student collaboration; provides important models of faculty collaboration with special emphasis on professional development; and offers a look at the future of electronic collaboration and the overall future of the humanities. Featuring the voices of humanities teacher-scholars at all stages of their professional careers, the chapters emphasize pedagogy, outlining contemporary issues and options. Electronic Collaboration in the Humanitiesspeaks directly to anyone involved with interdisciplinary initiatives in colleges and universities, such as writing across the curriculum and communication across the curriculum programs, and to specific populations within the humanities, including literacy and technology, language and literature, literacy studies, professional writing, and English education.

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
Peter Sands
PART I: THEORIES OF ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION	1	(88)
Collaborative Selves, Collaborative Worlds: Identity in the Information Age	3	(10)
Sherry Turkle
What's So Democratic About CMC?: The Rhetoric of Techno-Literacy in the New Millennium	13	(22)
Jami Carlacio
Computer-Mediated Communication as Reflective Rhetoric-in-Action: Dialogic Interaction, Technology, and Cross-Curricular Thinking	35	(14)
Rebecca J. Rickly
Electracy for the Ages: Collaboration With the Past and Future	49	(16)
James A. Inman
Collaborating Across Contexts: Rethinking the Local and the Global, Theory and Practice	65	(24)
Radhika Gajjala
Annapurna Mamidipudi
Response	79	(10)
Stephen Tchudi
PART II: STUDENT COLLABORATION AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA	89	(122)
New Technology, Newer Teachers: Computer Resources and Collaboration in Literature and Composition	91	(20)
Nancy Knowles
M. Wendy Hennequin
Voices Merged in Collaborated Conversation: The Peer Critiquing Computer Project	111	(22)
Mary E. Fakler
Joan E. Perisse
Reentry Women Students' Online Collaboration Patterns: Synchronous Conferencing in a Basic Writing Class	133	(18)
Alice Trupe
Using a Virtual Museum for Collaborative Teaching, Research, and Service	151	(16)
Jo B. Paoletti
Mary Corbin Sies
Virginia Jenkins
Across the Cyber Divide: Connecting Freshman Composition Students to the 21st Century	167	(20)
Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan
Simone M. Gers
Web Writing and Service Learning: A Call for Training as a Final Deliverable	187	(24)
Christina L. Prell
Response	197	(14)
Bill Friedheim
PART III: FACULTY COLLABORATION AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA	211	(72)
Writers Anomalous: Wiring Faculty Research	213	(14)
Cheryl Reed
Dawn M. Formo
What's in a Name? Defining Electronic Community	227	(14)
Donna N. Sewell
Cow Tale: A Story of Transformation in Two MOO Communities	241	(14)
Karen McComas
The Collaboration That Created the Kolb-Proust Archive: Humanities Scholarship, Computing, and the Library	255	(28)
Caroline Szylowicz
Jo Kibbee
Response	267	(16)
T. Lloyd Benson
PART IV: ELECTRONIC COLLABORATION AND THE FUTURE	283	(94)
Imagining Future(s): Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Emerging Technologies	285	(10)
Timothy Allen Jackson
Critical and Dynamic Literacy in the Computer Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between School Literacy and Workplace Literacy	295	(16)
Paul J. Morris II
Collaborative Research, Collaborative Thinking: Lessons From the Linux Community	311	(10)
Tari Fanderclai
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
Imaging Florida: A Model Interdisciplinary Collaboration by the Florida Research Ensemble	335	(42)
John Craig Freeman
Response	363	(14)
Randall Bass
Afterword	377	(8)
Anne Ruggles Gere
Notes on Contributors	385	(8)
References	393	(18)
Author Index	411	(6)
Subject Index	417