Class Reading List – Texts and Technologies – Spring 2012
Writing as a Technology of Human Development
Baron, Denis “From pencils to pixels: The stages of literacy technology.”
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/pencils.htm (This has
been published in a variety of places including In G. Hawisher & C. Selfe (Eds.),
Passions, pedagogies, and 21st century technologies (pp. 15-33). Logan, UT: Utah State UP.
Coleman, Joyce (1996). On beyond Ong: The bases of a revised theory of orality and literacy in
Public Reading and the reading public. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. (1- 33)
Ong, Walter. (1986). Writing is a technology that restructures thought in G. Raumann (ed.) The
written word: Literacy in translation. NY: Oxford U.P. (23-50).
Ancient Texts and Modern Problems
Mitchell, Larkin. (March/April 1999). Earliest Egyptian Glyphs Archaeology Magazine, 52 (2).
Popson, Colleen P. (March/April 2003). Earliest Mesoamerican Writing? Archaeology Magazine,
56 (2).
Himelfarb, Elizabeth J. (January/February 2000). First Alphabet Found in Egypt. Archaeology
Magazine, 53 (1)
Powell, Barry. (2009). Chapter 4 – Some General Issues in the Study of Writing. Writing: The
Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization. Malden, MA:Wiley-Blackwell. (51–60).
Lipson, Carol S. (2003). Recovering the multimedia history of writing in the public texts of
Ancient Egypt in M. Hocks and M. Kendrick (eds.) Eloquent images: Word and image in the
age of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT P. (89-115).
Martin, Henri-Jean. (1995) The history and power of writing. Chicago: U Chicago P. (1-42).
The Changing Nature of Reading
Brody, Florian. (1999). The medium is the memory. In Peter Lunenfeld (ed) Digital Dialects: New
essays on new media. Cambridge MA: MIT P. (134-149).
Carruthers, Mary. (1990). The book of memory. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. (221-257).
Saenger, Paul. (1997). The space between words: The origins of silent reading. Stanford, CA: Stanford
UP (1-51).
van de Merghel, Genevieve. (2003). Reading the internet: A carnivalesque discourse In Janice
Walker and Ollie Oveido (eds.) Texts and technology Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P. (187-204).
The Printing Press and Its Influence Part I
How revolutionary was the print revolution? (Feb 2002). The American Historical Review, 107, (1).
Elizabeth Eisenstein. (1979). The printing press as an agent of change. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.
(71-159)
The Printing Press and Its Influence Part II
Johns, Adrian (1998). The nature of the book. Chicago: U. Chicago P. (187-265; 324-379)
Critical Technology and Philosophy
Feenberg, Andrew. (2002)Transforming technology: A critical theory revisited. NY, NY: Oxford UP.
Interface as Ideological Space
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Brooke, C. G. (2009). Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton
P.
Selfe, Cynthia., & Selfe, Richard. (1994). The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in
electronic contact zones. CCC, 45(4) 480-504.
Interfaces as Rhetorical Problem
Brooke, C. G. (2009). Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton
P.
Carnegie, T. A. M. (2009). Interface as Exordium: The Rhetoric of Interactivity. Computers and
Composition, 26(3), 164-173.
The Changing Nature of the Library
Davidson, Cathy. (1988). Toward a history of books and readers. American Quarterly, 40 (1) 7 -17.
Russell, Beth M. (1998). Hidden Wisdom and Unseen Treasure: Revisiting Cataloging in
Medieval Libraries. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 26, 3
Cox, Richard, et al. (1998). Access Denied: The Dicarding of Library History. American Libraries,
29(4) 57-61.
Ross, Lyman & Pongracz Sennyey (2008). The library is dead! Long live the library! The
Practice of, Academic Librarianship and the Digital evolution. The Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 34 (2) 145-152.
Hypertext and Multimodal Possibilities
Ball, Cheryl E. (2006). Designerly ≠ readerly: Re-assessing multimodal and new media rubrics
for writing studies. Convergence, 12, 393–412.
Porter, James. (2008). Digital delivery Genre, 27 1-28.
New London Group (Spring 1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures
Harvard Educational Review, 66 (1) 60-92.
Prior, Paul, et al (2007). Re-situating and re-mediating the Canons: A cultural-historical
remapping of rhetorical activity Kairos, 11( 3)
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/binder.html?topoi/prior-et-al/index.html
Read the Intro and Core text. Other nodes will be assigned
The Internet, the Web, and the Economy
Friedman, Thomas. (2006). The world is flat: A brief history of the Twenty-first century. NY: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux. (50-200)
Jenkins, Henry. (2006) Why Heather can write: Media literacy and the Harry Potter wars in
Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: NYU P. (169-205)
Tapscott, Don & Anthony Williams. (2006). Wikinomics: How mass collaboration changes everything.
NY: Portfolio (7-33; 183-212)
Whittkower, D.E. (2010). Against Strong Copyright in E-business. in D. Palmer. Ethical Issues in
E-business. Hershey PA: Business Science Reference. (152-171).
Digital Literacy
Bawden, David. (2008). Origins and concepts of digital literacy. in C. Lankshear and M. Knobel
(eds.) Digital Literacies. New York: Peter Lang. (17-32).
Arola, K. L. (2010). The Design of Web 2.0: The Rise of the Template, The Fall of Design.
Computers and Composition, 27(1), 4-14.
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Inman, James. (2003). Electronic texts and the concept of close reading: A cyborg
anthropologist’s perspective. In Janice Walker and Ollie Oveido (eds.) Texts and
technology Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P. (1-24; 54-55)
Wysocki, Anne & Johndan Johnson-Eilola (1999). Blinded by the letter: Why are we using
literacy as a metaphor for everything else? in G. Hawisher and C. Selfe (eds.) Passions,
Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Urbana, IL: NCTE. (349-368).
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