Currents in Electronic Literacy - Editorial Notes

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Wed, 01 Apr 2015 15:34:20 +0000

Intersections

zhu — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:00:00 +0000

Welcome to our second blog post! Last time, we looked at the various transformations of classroom pedagogy and rhetoric since the mainstream introduction of web-based technologies. But how does literature fit into this new, developing paradigm? In what ways has the digital influenced literature and literary criticism?

2014: Currents Retrospective

coleman — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:41:53 +0000

Legacies

zhu — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:14:46 +0000

As we come nearer to the release of our Retrospective issue, it makes sense to look at not only contributions throughout this journal’s history, but contributors as well.

2013-2014 Currents Blog (Currents Midyear Prezi.jpg)

coleman — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:22:27 +0000

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2013-2014 Currents Blog

coleman — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:22:55 +0000

Legacies

As we come nearer to the release of our Retrospective issue, it makes sense to look at not only contributions throughout this journal’s history, but contributors as well.

Contributors' Notes

bourque — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:15:55 +0000

Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, electronic pedagogy, virtual systems theory, feminist theory, critical theory, computer games studies, digital aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. She is co-chair of the RCID PhD Colloquium on Serious Games at Clemson.

2008: The Commons

wdmartin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:24:34 +0000

Anyone who’s ever attended a class or taught in the humanities has experienced a cultural commons, be it students sharing their writing, professors sharing their favorite works of literature, philosophers sharing and debating ideas. Sharing is part of what makes us human. Technologies have facilitated this sharing in a variety of ways (the quill and pen allowed a voice to traverse time and space; the printing press allowed quick and reliable reproduction of texts), but digital media present a special case. Through networking technologies and digital transmission, we now have available an historically unprecedented capacity to share our cultural resources and to contribute to what humanists have called “tradition” since the ancient Greek era of oratorical and sometimes print culture. No longer restricted to dusty tomes in library stacks, tradition is now dispersed and rewritten on websites, blogs, in wikis, on video- and audio-sharing sites, through podcasts, and even over portable devices such as PDAs.

2007: Currents in Social Software

wdmartin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:38:29 +0000

Social networking websites and software have transformed our culture and models for business, and are quickly impacting our universities and academic practices. In this issue of Currents, our first as a strictly review publication, we examine a number of social networking software and websites and how they may be applied to the classroom and academic research. Instructors across the curriculum have discovered innovative and useful ways of integrating these tools, largely already familiar to many students, into collaborative learning experiences.

John Slatin Memorial Issue

wdmartin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:13:12 +0000

John Slatin’s Legacy

by Peg Syverson

It is a bittersweet privilege to provide the introduction to this issue of Currents, which is a tribute to John Slatin. Although we are still struggling with his loss, the remarkable work of his former students gathered here is a testament to his living legacy. It is a tribute that would have meant the most to him. He was a consummate teacher, who delighted in the successes of his students, and I know he would have been so deeply touched to know that they remember him with such gratitude. I will not repeat here what I have said in other places about John’s contributions to our field, and his innovations in computers and writing. I will say that our conversations and his example always supported and inspired me in my teaching. The outpouring of responses from his students when we offered the invitation to contribute to this issue was another reminder of the love and affection expressed by so many people throughout John’s illness and passing. The range of these pieces gives some sense of the scope and diversity of John’s scholarly and pedagogical interests and influence. In keeping with John’s love of experimentation, creativity, imagination, and exploration, the projects here are rich and diverse.