Author: Ashley M. Beardsley

Ashley Beardsley is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on food and cookbooks as multimodal, collaboratively written community texts.

Presenters: Sarah Young (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Charles Woods (Illinois State University) In this session, presenters explore students’ attitudes toward––and expectations for––privacy in online writing instruction (OWI). Sarah Young, “Student/User Privacy Expectations and the Online Classroom?” In her talk, Sarah Young imagines her students as not just learners, but also users who have certain expectations about how technology will or will not be used in their online courses. The possibility of events like Zoombombing in online meetings indicates that, as Young puts it, “the disconnect between privacy expectations and privacy realities can result in privacy crises” that disrupt students’ experiences…

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