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Whose Web Is It Anyway ?

Whose Web Is It Anyway ?

Publié le par François Blumenfeld

 Currents in Electronic Literacy (ISSN 1524-6493) is now accepting  submissions for a special issue--"Whose Web Is It Anyway?"--to be published
 in the fall of 2002. Completed articles for this issue are due August 15,  2002.

 The surge in the use of technology and the Internet in education and more  generally in society has had an enormous impact on those who learn and  those who teach in a wired culture. The changes in technology over the  past decade have left an enduring footprint that has altered the landscape  of education and other cultural forms. This transformation raises  important questions related to Currents' interest in the intersections of  technology with literary and cultural studies, writing, teaching, and  literacy. Among these questions are the following:

  •  How has the proliferation of new multi-media forms affected interaction  among people, including the dialogue in the classroom?
  •  What changes in education will be required in order to bridge the  "high-tech generation gap"--the cultural differences between those who grew  up "high-tech" (more and more students) and those who are learning as they  go (most academics)?
  •  How does the Internet limit or offer new possibilities for different groups  of people, including those with low incomes, those with disabilities, and  others?
  •  How has the Internet and the increase in collaborative Web publishing  affected authorship and ownership and our conception of these ideas, and  what challenges does the Internet raise for academic publications?
  •  What role does technology play in cultural memory and cultural literacy?
  •  Currents is seeking articles on all aspects of these intersections among  technology, literacy, education, and culture. We also welcome articles  that address literary, critical, theoretical, aesthetic, and teaching  issues, as well as authorship, ownership, programming, and visual literacy.


 While our focus for the Fall 2002 issue will be these issues, we also  welcome submissions on any aspect of electronic literacy for this issue.

 Currents is a semi-annual electronic journal published by the Computer  Writing and Research Lab of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at The  University of Texas at Austin. Currents' purpose is to provide for the  scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely  construed. In general, Currents seeks work addressing the use of electronic  texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in  fields including but not restricted to the following: literature (in  English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages  (English, foreign, and ESL), communications, media studies, and education.
 You can visit Currents' Fall 2001 issue and our archives at  http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/.

 Currents is particularly interested in work which takes advantage of the  hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format,  as well as articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies.


 To this end, we gladly accept articles with graphics, sound, and hyperlinks  submitted as HTML documents. We ask, however, that such submissions  adequately consider reader-access issues. For instance, we ask that  submissions incorporate such accommodations as the inclusion of <alt tags  in any image and the use of content tags (e.g., citation <cite and  emphasis <em tags) instead of the corresponding physical markup tags  (e.g., italics <i and bold <btags) whenever possible. For detailed  information about making Web documents accessible to people with disabilities, please refer to the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content  Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/.

 Currents is also pleased to publish essays in more traditional formats.
 Please submit these essays either in HTML format, Word 97/98 and 2000  format, or Rich Text Format (RTF). We accept electronic submissions by  email at ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu as well as on 3.5" floppy or Zip  disks by post sent to the following address:

 Currents in Electronic Literacy
 c/o Computer Writing and Research Lab
 Parlin 3, University of Texas at Austin
 Austin, TX 78712

 All submissions should adhere to MLA style guidelines for citations and  documentation. Currents reserves all copyrights to published articles and
 requires that all of its articles be housed on its Web server.

 If you have any questions, please contact the Currents editorial staff at  ejournal@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu.