Computers and Composition Online

29/01/2021

08/04/2019

***Read and "Meet"' ***
Get to know our authors' composing processes and learn a little about their histories and inspirations.

1. Read the "FSU Digital Symposium" by Jacob W. Craig Rory Lee, and David Bedsole http://cconlinejournal.org/digisymposium/

2. "Meet" Jacob W. Craig Rory Lee, and David Bedsole in their '5 minutes' interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyjabH6LGcI&t=11s

28/03/2019

***Technofeminist resources - could help you design a great course or section of a current course you teach.***

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/08_resources/

Between September 2017 and August 2018, we invited authors in the special issues of Computers and Composition and Computers and Composition Online; participants in the multivocal conversation for the special issues; and colleagues, friends, and collaborators via social media spaces to contribute entries to the resources list presented here. Contributors included Megan Adams, Chen Chen, Megan Condis, Bridget Gelms, Laura Gonzales, Leigh Gruwell, Vyshali Manivannan, Ruth Osorio, Flourice Richardson, and Erika M. Sparby.

Along with this resource list, we also encourage readers/viewers to consult the references sections of each individual article and webtext in the special issues.

Between September 2017 and August 2018, we invited authors in the special issues of Computers and Composition and Computers and Composition Online; participants in the multivocal conversation for the special issues; and colleagues, friends, and collaborators via social media spaces to contribute ent...

28/03/2019

"Beyond all that, though, looms the fear that author Philip Yancey explored recently in The Washington Post. The fear that with so many sources of information out there, books and long-form reading may be getting pushed aside: 'The Internet and social media have trained my brain," Yancey writes, "to read a paragraph or two, and then start looking around.'"

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/09/10/544546911/in-the-age-of-screen-time-is-paper-dead

What does the push for digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?

22/03/2019

"Swipe Right on Find/Replace: Invention, Equity and Technofeminism Potentials of Swipe and Find/Replace Technologies" by Paul Muhlhauser and Margaret Self

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/06_Muhlhauser_Self/

Our webtext comes in three official versions. Each version meets audience demands and expectations differently. We do this to be as kairoticly accessible to our audiences as possible and offer different forms of engagment with the webtext.

Swipe is more gisty and interactive. Users can swipe right and left to date theorists and concepts. Users will experience the salient points of our discussion on find/replace's technofeminist potentials. It's “in a nutshell.”

Find/Replace is playful and demonstrates our “patagogy.” It includes interactive elements, media, and might never be read the same way twice as words in the text are find/replaced, making similarly dissimilar points about find/replace. It's “the devil is in the details.”

Plain Text is what you find in journal pdfs. It's “all talk and no action.”

Please, knock on wood, enjoy each version.

21/03/2019

"TechnoFeminisms: A Conversation About Pasts, Presents, and Futures" with Megan Adams, Kris Blair, Lanette Cadle, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Radhika Gajjala, Angela Haas, Gail Hawisher, Donna LaCourt, Lisa Nakamura, Jackie Rhodes, Cindy Selfe, Barbi Smyser-Fauble, and Pam Takayoshi

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/07_multivocal/

The conversation was shaped around the following questions, but, as conversations do, both honed in on and moved away from them:

1. What initially drew you to feminist work with/around/on technology?

2. What are one or two things that you’ve seen change in the past 25 years regarding technofeminism? What’s one thing you wish had changed that hasn’t?

3. What are one or two things you’d like to call upon the current and next generation of technofeminist scholars to pursue, do, ask, etc.?

4. What are your hopes for the future and legacy of your own technofeminist work?

# 1980s; 1990s; activism; feminism; field-building; futurity, intergenerational relationships; leadership; mentorship; publication venues; technofeminism(s) #

18/03/2019

"Swipe Right on Find/Replace: Invention, Equity and Technofeminism Potentials of Swipe and Find/Replace Technologies"by Paul Muhlhauser and Margaret Self

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/06_Muhlhauser_Self/

Our webtext comes in three official versions. Each version meets audience demands and expectations differently. We do this to be as kairoticly accessible to our audiences as possible and offer different forms of engagment with the webtext.

Swipe is more gisty and interactive. Users can swipe right and left to date theorists and concepts. Users will experience the salient points of our discussion on find/replace's technofeminist potentials. It's “in a nutshell.”

Find/Replace is playful and demonstrates our “patagogy.” It includes interactive elements, media, and might never be read the same way twice as words in the text are find/replaced, making similarly dissimilar points about find/replace. It's “the devil is in the details.”

Plain Text is what you find in journal pdfs. It's “all talk and no action.”

Please, knock on wood, enjoy each version.

14/03/2019

"Curating a Technofeminist Space: Feminist Principles for Editing Online Publications" by Alexandra Hidalgo, Hannah Countryman, and Jessica Kukla

http://cconlinejournal.org/tec…/05_Hidalgo_Countryman_Kukla/

In this webtext, we share three video essays that are the result of a year-long collaboration between the authors: Alexandra Hidalgo, a faculty member, and Hannah Countryman and Jessica Kulka, two undergraduate students and editorial staff of agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers (https://agnesfilms.com/).
The video essays showcase and illuminate the relationships necessary to enact the technofeminist beliefs and practices of agnès film. The webtext frames these video essays with a dsicussion of the ways in which digital spaces and technologies open possibilities for technofeminist activism.

14/03/2019

"TechnoFeminist Design" by Patricia Fancher

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/04_Fancher/

TechnoFeminisms is an intellectual tradition that investigates the power relationships among our bodies, communities, environments, and labor, and how these power relations are embedded into technologies (Wajcman, 2004). Although technofeminism is deeply committed to critique, I also see this tradition as a creative and hopeful practice. Judy Wajcman located her theory between the critique of feminist studies of technology and the, at times, utopian promises of cyberfeminism. The promise of technofeminism, according to Wajcman, is that it offers a way of understanding our politicized, technological world "as well as a means of making a difference" (p. 130). It is this means of making a difference that I seek to explore, especially how interface design may afford opportunities to make a difference for feminists in rhetoric and composition.

TechnoFeminisms is an intellectual tradition that investigates the power relationships among our bodies, communities, environments, and labor, and how these power relations are embedded into technologies (Wajcman, 2004). Although technofeminism is deeply committed to critique, I also see this tradit...

11/03/2019

"TechnoFeminist Design" by Patricia Fancher

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/04_Fancher/

TechnoFeminisms is an intellectual tradition that investigates the power relationships among our bodies, communities, environments, and labor, and how these power relations are embedded into technologies (Wajcman, 2004). Although technofeminism is deeply committed to critique, I also see this tradition as a creative and hopeful practice. Judy Wajcman located her theory between the critique of feminist studies of technology and the, at times, utopian promises of cyberfeminism. The promise of technofeminism, according to Wajcman, is that it offers a way of understanding our politicized, technological world "as well as a means of making a difference" (p. 130). It is this means of making a difference that I seek to explore, especially how interface design may afford opportunities to make a difference for feminists in rhetoric and composition.

TechnoFeminisms is an intellectual tradition that investigates the power relationships among our bodies, communities, environments, and labor, and how these power relations are embedded into technologies (Wajcman, 2004). Although technofeminism is deeply committed to critique, I also see this tradit...

11/03/2019

"Curating a Technofeminist Space: Feminist Principles for Editing Online Publications" by Alexandra Hidalgo, Hannah Countryman, and Jessica Kukla

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/05_Hidalgo_Countryman_Kukla/

In this webtext, we share three video essays that are the result of a year-long collaboration between the authors: Alexandra Hidalgo, a faculty member, and Hannah Countryman and Jessica Kulka, two undergraduate students and editorial staff of agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers (https://agnesfilms.com/).

The video essays showcase and illuminate the relationships necessary to enact the technofeminist beliefs and practices of agnès film. The webtext frames these video essays with a dsicussion of the ways in which digital spaces and technologies open possibilities for technofeminist activism.

In this webtext, we share three video essays that are the result of a year-long collaboration between the authors: Alexandra Hidalgo, a faculty member, and Hannah Countryman and Jessica Kulka, two undergraduate students and editorial staff of agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers (h...

07/03/2019

"Emphasizing Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Access: Social Justice through Technofeminism Past, Present, and Future"
Julie Collins Bates, Francis Macarthy, & Sarah Warren-Riley

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/03_Bates_Macarthy_Warren_Riley/

We argue for the need to “pay attention” (Selfe, 1999) to the importance of early technofeminist work in relation to current and future social justice exigencies and the ways recent technologies (such as social media and virtual and augmented realities) simultaneously enable and limit intervention in specific contexts. In particular, we argue that technofeminist rhetorical analysis makes apparent the ways people succeed in using digital technologies for social justice interventions while also underscoring how issues of power and agency limit the potential of current and future digital technologies to transform some people’s lives, particularly the lives of people marginalized by race, socioeconomic status, gender, citizenship, age, disability, and/or more.

We argue for the need to “pay attention” (Selfe, 1999) to the importance of early technofeminist work in relation to current and future social justice exigencies and the ways recent technologies (such as social media and virtual and augmented realities) simultaneously enable and limit interventi...

07/03/2019

"A Technofeminist Approach to Platform Rhetorics" by Bridget Gelms and Dustin Edwards

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/02_Gelms_Edwards/

Platform economy. Platform capitalism. Platform society. The rise of the platform—as a bundled term that describes an economic model, a set of computational procedures, and a semi-public space from which to write and engage—has reconfigured the conditions of the web.

Bridget Gelms and Dustin Edwards Platform economy. Platform capitalism. Platform society. The rise of the platform—as a bundled term that describes an economic model, a set of computational procedures, and a semi-public space from which to write and engage—has reconfigured the conditions of the ...

04/03/2019

"A Technofeminist Approach to Platform Rhetorics" by Bridget Gelms and Dustin Edwards

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/02_Gelms_Edwards/

Platform economy. Platform capitalism. Platform society. The rise of the platform—as a bundled term that describes an economic model, a set of computational procedures, and a semi-public space from which to write and engage—has reconfigured the conditions of the web.

Bridget Gelms and Dustin Edwards Platform economy. Platform capitalism. Platform society. The rise of the platform—as a bundled term that describes an economic model, a set of computational procedures, and a semi-public space from which to write and engage—has reconfigured the conditions of the ...

04/03/2019

"Emphasizing Embodiment, Intersectionality, and Access: Social Justice through Technofeminism Past, Present, and Future"
Julie Collins Bates, Francis Macarthy, & Sarah Warren-Riley

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/03_Bates_Macarthy_Warren_Riley/

We argue for the need to “pay attention” (Selfe, 1999) to the importance of early technofeminist work in relation to current and future social justice exigencies and the ways recent technologies (such as social media and virtual and augmented realities) simultaneously enable and limit intervention in specific contexts. In particular, we argue that technofeminist rhetorical analysis makes apparent the ways people succeed in using digital technologies for social justice interventions while also underscoring how issues of power and agency limit the potential of current and future digital technologies to transform some people’s lives, particularly the lives of people marginalized by race, socioeconomic status, gender, citizenship, age, disability, and/or more.

We argue for the need to “pay attention” (Selfe, 1999) to the importance of early technofeminist work in relation to current and future social justice exigencies and the ways recent technologies (such as social media and virtual and augmented realities) simultaneously enable and limit interventi...

28/02/2019

Introduction to our new issue on **TECHNOFEMINISM** by our guest editors: Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Angela Haas, and Jackie Rhodes

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/00_Editors/

"Twelve days after Trump’s inauguration, we brainstormed this double-special issue on intersectional technofeminisms. Although we knew the civic and disciplinary kairos was right for honoring our rich technofeminist roots and calling for more intersectional technofeminist work in scholarly and public spheres, we could not have predicted the intersectional feminist digital activist moments that emerged since. Among the most notable is the viral hashtag movement, ignited 11 years after Tarana Burke’s community activist “me too” campaign, which provides sexual assault survivors a platform for sharing stories of surviving sexual violence."

Twelve days after Trump’s inauguration, we brainstormed this double-special issue on intersectional technofeminisms. Although we knew the civic and disciplinary kairos was right for honoring our rich technofeminist roots and calling for more intersectional technofeminist work in scholarly and publ...

28/02/2019

"White Women Voted for Trump: The Women's March on Washington and Intersectional Feminist Futures" by
Laura Tetreault

http://cconlinejournal.org/techfem_si/01_Tetreault/

The January 2017 Women's March on Washington has been called possibly the largest protest in U.S. history, with sister marches in many U.S. cities and internationally on every continent including Antarctica (Vick, 2017). The marches, which took place the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, represented an uprising against the systemic, interconnected oppressions crystallized in the form of Trump's election. They have since given rise to not just a protest but a movement, under the banner of the Women's March and interconnected organizations. Far from being a homogenous movement, the Women's March and its aftermath have struggled with many of the tensions inherent in forming coalitions against multiple forms of oppression. The Women's March's policy platform has been called “beautifully intersectional” by some (Vagianos, 2017), but the march and resulting movement have also had to contend with legacies of white privilege, erasure of women of color and transgender women, and other histories of oppression in feminist movements.

14/02/2019

Very proud to announce this special issue of Computers and Composition Online: TechnoFeminism: (Re)Generations and Intersectional Futures

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16/01/2019

Software Review: LastPass
Review by Krista Speicher Sarraf
http://cconlinejournal.org/Last_Pass/lastpass.html

LastPass is a password management system that allows users to create and store unique passwords for their web accounts and mobile applications. As password-protected digital composing tools become ubiquitous for multimodal composition, LastPass provides an opportunity for teaching and learning about an important aspect of digital literacy: data security. Using LastPass, students can learn how to use digital composing tools wisely by saving their passwords in a secure location.

10/01/2019

En(Twine)d with Ergodic Rhetoric
By: Caleb Andrew Milligan
http://cconlinejournal.org/milligan.html

Using Porpentine’s howling dogs and the “interactive, nonlinear” storytelling device Twine it was created through, I explore how ergodic rhetoric is an electrate step forward that does not disavow literacy, but does build outside of its constructs. Twine is an open-source tool that allows users to create interactive stories that unfold through the clicking of hypertext links, and howling dogs is perhaps one of its most famous example texts demonstrating how Twine compositions can be described as games.

09/01/2019

Go Make Movies: An Interview with Alexandra Hidalgo
by: Megan Adams
http://cconlinejournal.org/hidalgo_iview/

I sat down to talk with Alexandra about her journey as a feminist filmmaker,how video is being incorporated into the field of rhetoric and writing, and how we can work to become and support future film makers.

Alexandra Hidalgo is an assistant professor at Michigan State University. Her research deals with film and video production, film studies, gender, race, immigration, and memoirs. She's also an award winning documentary filmmaker. Her films have been recognized and screened around the world. For more...