Writing
Having realized the transition from telegraph to telephone to radio, TV, film, to
bandwidth, to whatever comes next, we all can agree that the ways we present
information have changed. It's harder to convince someone, however, that we need
to re-examine the way we write. Seeing online interactions as writing extends our
own powers of presentation. We can borrow what we know from other forms of
writing and document what we discover about the new.
This class is interested
in the spaces that the internet carves our for different kinds of writing. We
will be working on formal, print papers and web projects for this course.
Additionally, we are interested in informal writing and the ways that technology
expands the definition of these kinds of conversational compositions. For
examples, you can check our message forums page, or look at a transcript of an
interchange on cyberporn.
Our first close look at writing and hypermedia begins with two writing samples by the instructor. Both of the
essays experiment with writing to discuss writing.
Stay tuned for
different information.
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