Re-Mapping Narrative Technology's Impact on the Way We Write (Gian Pagnucci, Nicholas Mauriello)

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This volume is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility. The volume begins with Tales of the Digital Self. By telling stories we define ourselves. This struggle to understand who and what we are is even more amplified on the Web where identity is almost liquid. The authors in the second section picture how stories will be told in the future. I Pixels of Heroes and Heroines, we reconnect the future of narrative discourse to its literary roots. Although it is important to consider the forms narratives will take in the future, it is equally important to consider how these stories will be taught. This is the issue authors take up in stores from Wired Desktops. Chapters move into the realm of the Political in Views of Techno-Identity and Virtual Spaces. The volume concludes with the chapters in Critical Reflections on Project UNLOC. FOREWARD: THE IMPORTANCE OF NARRATIVE: Telling Stories, Drawing Maps. INTRODUCTION: PROJECT UNLOC: UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVE, LITERACY AND OURSELVES IN CYBERSPACE. The future of Narrative Discourse: Technology’s Impact on the Way We Write. TALES OF THE DIGITAL SELF: INTERSECTION OF NARRATIVE, TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY. ‘Diet Suck” and Other Tales of Women’s Bodies on the Web. The Presence of Interlocutors versus The Sites of the Internet: The Restricted Range of Disability Narratives. MOSIACS OF NARRATIVE OPTOMETRY: DIGITAL NARRATIVES/VISUAL LITERACY. Moving from Print to Digital Media. From Hawaii to Kairos: Alt. Writing and the Ongoing Composition. PIXELS OF HEROES AND HEROINES: LITERATURE HITS CYBERSPACE. Desire and Slow Time: Reading Charlotte Bronte in the Informtion Age. Ulysses Unbound: Examining the Digital (R)evolution of Narrative Context. STORIES FROM WIRED DESKTOPS: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY. Stories of Technology: Shaping School Landscapers. Who Stories? Whose Realities? The Materiality of Narratives in the Electronic Writing Classroom. VIEWS OF TECHNO-IDENTITY AND VIRTUAL SPACES: WEB POLITICS AND INTERNET RESISTANCE. An Exile Collage: Politics, Stories, and Resistance in Cyberspace. CultureWise: Narrative as Research, Research as Narrative. Writing on the Internet (And That’s Good). CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON PROJECT UNLOC. People Do What they Know: Some Accounts of Participation in Project UNLOC. About the Contributors, Author Index. Subject Index. Year: Sumer 2005 Pages: 352