Literacies
28 posts
Education in the (Dis)Information Age
Digital Literacy
It's time we brought back the hyperlink and learned how to really use it. It’s time we used information abundance to our advantage. And it’s time we disentangled our communications from platforms tuned for the spread of disinformation. The health of our democracies just might depend on it.
Meeting the Dimensions of Education
Literacies
When we talk about education, one fundamental thing from which we should start are the aspects in which education takes place. What does a person need in his life? What makes him educated,
Truthy Lies and Surreal Truths: A Plea for Critical Digital Literacies
Digital Literacy
Misinformation abounds. This has always been the case, but the problem has become acute in the age of digital communication. As Mike [https://hapgood.us/2016/11/13/fake-news-does-better-on-facebook-than-real-news/] Caulfield [https://hapgood.us/
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Textual Communities: Writing, Editing, and Generation in Chicana Feminism
Digital culture
When I first proposed the research title “Editing Chicanas,” one of my mentors, Alice Gambrell, commented that it was a good title, partly because it prompted such anxiety. I was surprised, as anxiety
#GenLit as #Netprov
Generative Fiction
Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the
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Creating Mike Sterling for the #GenLit Project
Generative Fiction
Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical support to the
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Perspectives from the #GenLit Classroom: A Professor and Student Converse
Generative Fiction
Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://hybrid.pub/]is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical, digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical
15 min read
What is Generative Literature? Introducing “The Generative Literature Project”
Generative Fiction
Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing [http://hybrid.pub/] is our experiment in longer-form work related to critical, digital pedagogy. For the past year and a half, Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing has been providing editorial and technical
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Teaching Digital Wisdom
Digital Pedagogy
Eliciting both passion and bloviating, the topic of appropriate technology use in the college classroom is sure to spark lively conversation among college instructors. While more and more institutions are requiring at least
The Play’s The Thing: Lessons from Preschool Storytimes  for College Classrooms
editors’ picks
Though one might imagine that suggestions emerging from a preschool storytime may not seem to be a likely source of wisdom for an adult audience, I find that we often forget the importance
Humanizing the Interface
Digital Humanities
Oppression is inherently spatial. Governments use biopolitical mechanisms such as urban zoning and prisons to keep undesirable populations fixed in place; institutions use office location to distinguish permanent from contingent faculty; houses of
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Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance
Copyright
“The problem is to begin with a conception of power relations that grants that resistance is always possible but not always successful.”~ David Sholle, “Resistance: Pinning Down a Wandering Concept in Cultural Studies
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Building Community and Critical Literacies with the Domain of One’s Own Incubator
Literacies
In April, faculty and staff from fifteen universities in the Atlanta region (and beyond) will attend the Domain of One’s Own Atlanta Regional Incubator [http://ewprogram.com/incubator/] hosted by Emory University’
Multimodality as a Frame for Individual and Institutional Change
editors’ picks
Recently, we completed the final manuscript for a guidebook [http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/Catalog/product/writerdesigner-firstedition-arola] to support multimodal composition in writing- and project-intensive courses. We wrote the book because we realized that