Cynthia L. Selfe Gail E. Hawisher Patrick W. Berry Timothy Lockridge Melanie Yergeau Using Computers and Composition Digital Press as a case study, we describe the challenges (and rewards) of digital publishing. It’s hard to believe that CCDP is nearly ten years old now. The six challenges below encapsulate what the press has accomplished and point toward the work that remains. Challenge #1: Defining the Mission and Niche of Computers and Composition Digital Press In the context of 2007, when Computers and Composition Digital Press (CCDP) was founded by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, with the able advice and…
Author: Melanie Yergeau
I thought that things would change once I received my PhD. Not large things, mind you, but meaningful things, nonetheless. Things like panel moderators introducing me as Dr. Yergeau rather than an inspiring young adult with a special story. Things like psychologists talking to me at a rate higher (yes, HIGH- ER-) than seven words per minute. Things like social workers restraining themselves from drawing, on their business cards, cartoon emoticons and XOXO. Things, you know, like that. (In case you’re wondering, digital rhetoric friends, 🙁 represents sad feelings. FYI.) I’m a disabled person who researches disability studies, and the…