1st Edition

Complex Worlds Digital Culture, Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Edited By Andrienne Lamberti, Anne Richards Copyright 2011
260 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

'Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication' is a collection of thought-provoking scholarly essays by teachers and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields. Scrupulously edited for a range of readers, the collection aims to help familiarize advanced students, teachers, and researchers in professional communication, computers... Read more

Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION Digital Divergence, Digital Complexity
Anne R. Richards and Adrienne P. Lamberti

PART I: TRANSFORMING ADVOCACY


CHAPTER 1 Cyberactivism, Viral Flash Activism, and Critical Literacy Pedagogy in the Age of The Meatrix Eileen E. Schell

CHAPTER 2 Retracing the Footprints from Print to Digital: An Assessment of Textual Structure Adrienne P. Lamberti

CHAPTER 3 The Fourth Estate in an Era of Digitally Mediated Democracy Leonard Witt

PART II: SHAPING THE PROFESSIONS


CHAPTER 4 Gertrude Stein in QuickTime: Documenting Performance in the Digital Age Jason Farman

CHAPTER 5 Digitizable Cultural Capital: Anticipations of Profit in the Web Market John B. Killoran

CHAPTER 6 A Case Study of the Impact of Digital Documentation on Professional Change: The WPA Electronic Mailing List, Knowledge Network, and Community Outreach Huiling Ding

PART III: BUILDING COMMUNITIES


CHAPTER 7 A South-North Online Collaboration between Professional Writing Students in Tunisia and the United States Faiza Derbel and Anne R. Richards

CHAPTER 8 Meeting Online Friends Offline: A Comparison of South Korean and U.S. College Students’ Differences in Self-Construal and Computer-Mediated Communication Preferences Heeman Kim and William Faux

PART IV: INFORMING PEDAGOGY


CHAPTER 9 Teaching Effective Technology Use in Technical and Professional Communication Programs Based in Colleges of the Humanities Laura McGrath

CHAPTER 10 Technical Communication Pedagogy and the Broadband Divide: Academic and Industrial Perspectives Rudy McDaniel and Sherry Steward

CHAPTER 11 Sizing Up Single-Sourcing: Rhetorical Interventions for XML Documentation Aimee Kendall Roundtree

Biography

Andrienne Lamberti, Anne Richards