Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy (Takayoshi, Sullivan)

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The changing nature of the workforce and the increasing presence of technologies in composition studies promise to affect not only the ways we work, but the very shape of the discipline. This volume takes on the challenge of thinking about the intersections of work, technology, and composition studies in ways that are unprecedented. These areas interact in numerous and significant ways, yet the focus is often on the concepts in isolation from one another. Authors in this collection explore technology and labor issues across a range of institutional locations to focus on working as scholars, administrators (of writing programs, writing across the curriculum programs, assessment programs), teachers, workers held accountable to bureaucrats, and gendered and raced workers, and the future roles compositions will adopt in the university and how technology affects those identities. The chapters address the nature of composition labor in a technological society, the new geographies of composition, variety of identity and agency that are enabled and denied, academic labor outside the classroom and academy, and how virtuality impacts labor. They provide varied perspectives on what issues are import and alert researchers and teachers that a serious consideration of labor and writing technologies are needed to expand notions of what composition studies can and must be. Contents: Literacy Work in a Technology-Rich Culture: Issues at the Intersection of Labor, Technology, and Writing Instruction, Pamela Takayoshi and Patricia Sullivan. VOICING OUR (PAST AND FUTURE) PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES. When the Cutting Edge of Technology is at Your Throat: A Report From the Front, Richard Miller. Composition, or a Case for Experimental Critical Writing, Janet Carey Eldred. Technological Labor and Tenure Decisions: Making a Virtual Case via Electronic Portfolios, Kristine L. Blair. Assessment as Labor and the Labor of Assessment, Peggy O’Neill, Ellen Schendel, Michael Williamson, and Brian Huot. MEDIATING TECHNOLOGY-SHAPED IDENTITIES. WAC for Cyborgs: Discursive Thought in Information-Rich Environments, Charles Bazerman. “Whatever Beings”: The Coming (Educational) Community, Victor Vitanza. “Outing the Institution: (Re)Writing Technologies with a Rhetoric of Female-to-Male Drag, Tara Pauliny. (Cyber)Conspiracy Theories?” African-American Students in the Computerized Writing Environment, Samantha Blackmon. EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES FOR AGENCY IN INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS. Agencies, Ecologies, and the Mundane Artifacts in Our Midst, Stuart Blythe. Roots and Routes to Agency: Space, Access, and Standards of Participation, Annette Harris Powell. (Mis)Conceptions: Pedagogical Labor and Learning-Enhancement Programs, Joseph Zeppetello. Labor Practices and the Use Value of Technologies, Marilyn M. Cooper. Literacy Work in E-Learning Factories: How Stories in Popular Business Imagine Our Future, Patricia Sullivan. IDENTIFYING SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES. Techniques, Technologies, and the Deskilling of Rhetoric and Composition: Managing the Knowledge-Intensive Work of Writing Instruction, Bill Hart-Davidson and Tim Peeples. Writing Assessment and the Labor of “Reform in the Academy”, Margaret Willard-Traub. Between Ethnographic and Virtual Worlds: Toward a Pedagogy of Mediation, David Seitz and Julie Lindquist. Sustaining Community-Based Work: Community-Based Research and Community-Building, Jeff Grabill. Author Index. Subject Index.