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Twittering Toward Tenure? The Politics of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age

Joe Erickson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:34:09 +0000

Today in the Bowen Thompson Student Union at Bowling Green State University, Professor Kristine Blair will deliver her Distinguished Faculty Lecture on the changing nature of academic scholarship in the wake of digital technologies. She draws on her experience as a department chair and an online journal editor (the one associated with this Blog) she will argue that traditional, print-based institutional reward structures for faculty scholarship must grow and develop to fully accept and embrace digital, web-based modes of scholarly productivity.

This is a great honor for Kris, and those of us in her department and/or who work with her at Computers and Composition Online – or in any one of the many scholarly enterprises she plays a role in – are very proud of her. Her work positively affects a lot of people. If you’re near BGSU today around 4:00 pm, be sure to stop by and watch her presentation in room 206 of the student union. If not, next time you see her at a conference, be sure to give her congratulations for what surely will have been a successful presentation.

Digital Tool: Sophie

Joe Erickson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:12:01 +0000

Sophie is a digital authoring tool that enables authors to develop large projects for publication in digitally rich, networked environments. It’s already receiving some pretty good reception on the journalism scene, and some academics seem to be warming up to it as well. This isn’t a website authoring tool; it’s more of a digital book authoring tool, but even that designation doesn’t quite do the tool justice. It’s new and interesting, and I think it has the potential to have a pretty significant impact on digital academic publishing, especially for recent ventures like the Computers and Composition Digital Press, which seeks to publish book length projects suitable for digital publication.

Summer/Fall 2009 Computers and Composition Online Available

Joe Erickson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:38:10 +0000

Special guest editors Michael Day, Randall McClure, and Mike Palmquist present the summer/fall issue of Computers and Composition Online – Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of Web 2.0. The texts assembled for this issue simultaneously describe, analyze, and, perhaps most importantly, demonstrate the complex of possibilities and challenges networked writing presents to both the teaching and learning of composition. More specifically, the texts presented in this issue address the impact that “open source, freeware, collaboration, and other new forms of distributed, iterative writing” might have for teaching and research at the individual level as well as how these practices could potentially inform how the composition community collectively defines its disciplinary work.

As usual, I encourage anyone interested to post their responses to the issues and concerns addressed in this issue of CCO here on the blog!