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Richard Ohmann links technological literacy to socioeconomic class.
Richard Ohmann believes the new wave of technology in education could lead to a widening of the gap between those with access to technology and those without. He begins research questioning whether advances in technology will leave behind those students without the means to purchase computers or word processors. -
Miller-Cochran and Rodrigo suggest usability is important to analyze.
Miller-Cochran, Susan, and Rochelle Rodrigo, eds. Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies. Cresskill: Hampton P, 2009. The researchers suggest that usability must be considered when assessing how effective new technology is for composing. Students should not take new technologies at face value. -
Cynthia Selfe publishes "Technology and Literacy..."
Selfe, Cynthia. Technology and Literacy in the 21st Century: The Importance of Paying Attention. Carbondale: South Illionois UP, 1999.
Cynthia Selfe's work draws attention to the issues of economy and privilege when discussing technology and literacy. -
DeVoss et al. publish "Infrastructure and Composing..."
DeVoss, Danielle Nicole et al. "Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing." College Composition and Communication 57.1. 2005 The article focuses on institutional, political, and cultural infrastructures that influence the moment of a media composition. They suggest one must understand the surrounding circumstances to understand this composition. Also, in order to teach these media, instructures must actively engage - planning and executing how to teach digitally. -
Cynthia Selfe's "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning" is publushed.
Selfe, Cynthia L. "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning." College Composition and Communication 60.4 (2009). This article argues that focus on written text is a relatively recent phenomenon, that has helped increase the divide between written text versus spoken word. The fact that aurality has persisted (despite the vast amount of writing) shows it is still important. -
Elizabeth Murray et al. write about their time as TAs.
Murray, Elizabeth A., Hailey A. Sheets, and Nicole A. Williams. "The New Work of Assessment: Evaluating Multimodal Compositions." Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2010). Web. These TAs offer their experiences teaching multimodal composition. They name five criteria as "domains that many felt critical for assessing and improving our work as creators..." in this arena. -
Richard Ohmann voices his concern that those ignorant of computers are equivalent of illiterate.
Ohmann, Richard. “Literacy, Technology, and Monopoly Capital” Cross Talk In Comp Theory: A Reader. Ed. Victor Villanueva & Kristin L. Arola. Urbana: NCTE, 2011. 699–716. Ohmann states that with computers being the equivalent of books in the modern age, being incapable of using them is the modern equivalent of being illiterate.