Well, congratulations! You have found the class blog for "Writing in the Digital Age" at UT-Chattanooga. This class will focus on a few thought-provoking questions as we collectively think about the nature of text/textuality, authorship, audience, context, literacy, and more in the early 21st Century. Some of those questions include the following:
Q: How do the various technologies that now mediate text production (viz. writing and authoring) impact the rhetorical potential of texts? And how do the various technologies that now mediate text consumption/interpretation (viz. reading) impact the rhetorical potential of texts? Inherent in such questions is the challenge to traditional notions of writing and reading, so a more pointed question is simply this: what does it mean to write and to read today? What does it mean to be literate in the context of the early 21st Century?
Q: Digital media tend to be highly visual, so can images argue? Do they facilitate rhetorical impact or effect? In other words, do images function rhetorically? What are the relationships among visual, spoken, written, and digital rhetorics?
Q: Here comes a big word... multimodality. What influences do screen-based technologies and multimodality have on the study of rhetoric or the study of English (in the sense that it is an academic discipline)?
Let's talk! Feeling uncomfortable? Try this on.
We'll cover the course syllabus tonight in class, talk about our texts/books, talk about the assignments and expectations, and more. The more exciting stuff: we'll set up our blogs (using Google Blogger, most likely), and begin our literacy narratives.
The assignment: Read pp. 1-76 in Bolter. Finish your literacy narratives. Be prepared to discuss in two weeks after the MLK holiday.
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