Girls Gone Coding: New Media Stereotypes from the Computer Guy to Changing the World
by Chris Parsons I’m not quite sure how the opening to the story goes. “I was looking at the woman in the clearance bra but was distracted by an article…
News and conversations
Interviews with our authors, announcements from the press, and conversations about digital scholarship.
Discomposed Composing in a First Year Writing Classroom
Contribute by Molly Parsons. I just completed my first year of graduate school at the University of Michigan, and my first year teaching a first year composition course. I created…
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Contributed by Merideth Garcia I am a mother. And a daughter. And a graduate student enrolled in Dr. Melanie Yergeau’s Computers and Writing course. Our class recently spent a week…
ACDFA Conference 2013 ... a brief chat about (dance) composition
Contributed by Maxx Passion I am a first year MFA student in Dance Composition at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and this past March I attended the American College…
Ignoring the Digital Elephant
Contributed by Rebecca Manery The big news at the 2013 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference held in Boston last month was the announcement, tweeted and retweeted, that…
TLL Review: The Reviewers
By clicking on the reviewer’s name you will be directed to a reviewer’s position statement that explains his/her method for reading and reviewing TLL. Megan Adams is a second-year PhD…
TLL Review: Conclusion
TLL concludes with Hawisher, Selfe, and Berry, in collaboration with Synne Skjulstad, synthesizing chapter findings of this fascinating life-history interview project. The chapter begins by showcasing the digital literacy projects…
TLL Review: Chapters
“ Digital Literacies, Technological Diffusion, and Globalization,” the first of five body chapters, introduces the thirteen coauthors whose life experiences are the focus of TLL. Representing eleven countries of origin…
TLL Review: Mode
Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen (2001; p. 21-22) explain modes as “semiotic resources which allow the simultaneous realisation [sic] of discourses and types of (inter)action.” According to Kress and…