Review by Jason Tham Read more about session D8 on the C&W conference site. Panelists Angela Haas, Illinois State University Erin Frost, Illinois State University Kristin Arola, Washington State University Barbi Smyser-Fauble, Illinois State University This panel capitalized on the exigence brought forth by the newly established Gender Caucus at Computers and Writing 2013 to examine the mechanization and medicalization of women’s bodies on- and offline. The resulting narratives contribute to the growing field of cyborgian studies, technofeminism, and cyberfeminist scholarship. (1) Angela Haas and Erin Frost sought to investigate the rhetoric of and notions about body-monitoring technologies by employing a…
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Review by Merideth Garcia Read more about Keynote 3 on the C&W conference site. Read the in-progress transcript Listen to the audio View the slides Karl Stolley’s meditation on difficulty begins to address two of the most pressing and exasperating questions in the field of Computers and Writing: 1) How do we keep up with the rapid changes in digital content organization and distribution? 2) What do we teach students that will withstand these rapid changes? His answers: 1) We don’t. Treat the web as the platform. Pick a program (or language) and go deep, but be thoughtful about what you…
Review by Anne Ruggles Gere Panelists Anthony Collamati, Alma College Ron Brooks, Oklahoma State University Sarah Arroyo and Bahareh Alaei, Cal State Long Beach Robert Leston, New York College of Technology Geoffrey Carter, Saginaw Valley State University Scot Barnett, Clemson Alexandra Hidalgo, Purdue University Jason Helms, Texas Christian University Walking into the room was more like entering a cocktail party than a typical MLA session. About 25 people were milling around, talking, and looking at the eight screens positioned throughout the room. And beer was being served. Someone tried to announce the session, but it had already begun. Pinball games…
Reviewed by Sarah Allison Presiding James F. English, Univ. of Pennsylvania Panelists Robin Valenza, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, “Enumerating and Visualizing Early English Print” Ted Underwood, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, “The Imaginative Use of Numbers” Mark McGurl, Stanford Univ., “Being and Time Management” As its title suggests, this panel focused on a key problem in empirical method in literary studies: the translation of letters to numbers and back again. Texts unfold one word after another, but data sets don’t. So the panelists asked: What happens to the initial object of study in that transformation, and how does that translation relate…