Writing for Cyberspace
v2.1
Welcome
to "Writing for Cyberspace." This course explores how digital technologies are redefining the nature of "writing" and of individuals.
What will we do?
We will read about the new genres, composing practices, and rhetorics associated with electronic (rather than print) environments, and we will create our own digital texts, such as blogs, wikis, and websites.
In addition, we will investigate the role of networks in these digital ecologies in forming the "network individual ... whose mind is manifestly mediated, once again, by the minds of those forming his/her smaller or larger community" (Kristóf Nyíri).
Quotations
- Writing is an adventure. —Winston Churchill
- If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research. —Albert Einstein
- You have to be confused before you can reach a new level of understanding anything. —Dudley Herschbach
- for better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good luck with your dreams and cyberwriting!
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