Thinking Globally, Composing Locally : Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. Communication to a global audience presents a number of new challenges; writers seeking to connect with individuals from many different cultures must rethink their concept of audience. They must also prepare to address friction that may arise from cross-cultural rhetorical situations, variation in available technology and in access between interlocutors, and disparate legal environments. The volume offers a pedagogical framework that addresses three interconnected and overarching objectives: using online media to contact audiences from other cultures to share ideas; presenting ideas in a manner that invites audiences from other cultures to recognize, understand, and convey or act upon them; and composing ideas to connect with global audiences to engage in ongoing and meaningful exchanges via online media. Chapters explore a diverse range of pedagogical techniques, including digital notebooks designed to create a space for active dialogic and multicultural inquiry, experience mapping to identify communication disruption points in international customer service, and online forums used in global distance education. Thinking Globally, Composing Locally will prove an invaluable resource for instructors seeking to address the many exigencies of online writing situations in global environments. Contributors: Suzanne Blum Malley, Katherine Bridgman, Maury Elizabeth Brown, Kaitlin Clinnin, Cynthia Davidson, Susan Delagrange, Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Amber Engelson, Kay Halasek, Lavinia Hirsu, Daniel Hocutt, Vassiliki Kourbani, Tika Lamsal, Liz Lane, Ben Lauren, J. C. Lee, Ben McCorkle, Jen Michaels, Minh-Tam Nguyen, Beau S. Pihlaja, Ma Pilar Milagros, Cynthia L. Selfe, Heather Turner, Don Unger, Josephine Walwema Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction-Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Re-thinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet / Rich Rice and Kirk St. Amant -- Section I: Contacting -- 1. Digital Notebooks: Composing with Open Access / Josephine Walwema -- 2. Disjuncture, Difference, and Representation in Experience Mapping / Minh-Tam Nguyen, Heather Noel Turner, and Benjamin Lauren -- 3. Lessons from an International Public Forum: Literacy Development in New Media Environments / J.C. Lee -- 4. Reconstructing Ethos as Dwelling Place: On the Bridge of Twenty-First Century Writing Practices (ePortfolios and Blogfolios) / Cynthia Davidson -- 5. Considering Global Communication and Usability as Networked Engagement: Lessons from 4C4Equality / Liz Lane and Don Unger -- Section II: Conveying -- 6. Ludic Is the New Phatic: Making Connections in Global, Internet-Mediated Learning Environments / Suzanne Blum Malley -- 7. The MOOC as a Souk: Writing Instruction, World Englishes, and Writers at Scale / Kaitlin Clinnin, Kay Halasek, Ben McCorkle, Susan Delagrange, Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Jen Michaels, and Cynthia L. Selfe -- 8. "Resources Are Power": Writing across the Global Information Divide / Amber Engelson -- 9. Activity Theory, Actor-Network Theory, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century / Beau S. Pihlaja -- 10. Examining Digital Composing Practices in an Intercultural Writing Class in Turkey: Empirical Data on Student Negotiations / M® Pilar Milagros -- Section III: Connecting -- 11. Writing Center Asynchronous/Synchronous Online Feedback: The Relationship between E-Feedback and Its Impact on Student Satisfaction, Learning, and Textual Revision / Vassiliki Kourbani -- 12. Clicks, Tweets, Links, and Other Global Actions: The Nature of Distributed Agency in Digital Environments / Lavinia Hirsu « Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. Communication to a global audience presents a number of new challenges; writers seeking to connect with individuals from many different cultures must rethink their concept of audience. They must also prepare to address friction that may arise from cross-cultural rhetorical situations, variation in available technology and in access between interlocutors, and disparate legal environments. The volume offers a pedagogical framework that addresses three interconnected and overarching objectives: using online media to contact audiences from other cultures to share ideas; presenting ideas in a manner that invites audiences from other cultures to recognize, understand, and convey or act upon them; and composing ideas to connect with global audiences to engage in ongoing and meaningful exchanges via online media. Chapters explore a diverse range of pedagogical techniques, including digital notebooks designed to create a space for active dialogic and multicultural inquiry, experience mapping to identify communication disruption points in international customer service, and online forums used in global distance education. Thinking Globally, Composing Locally will prove an invaluable resource for instructors seeking to address the many exigencies of online writing situations in global environments. »-- Résumé de l'éditeur 13. Connecting the Local and the Global: Digital Interfaces and Hybrid Embodiment in Transnational Activism / Katherine Bridgman -- 14. Globally Digital, Digitally Global: Multimodal Literacies among Bhutanese Refugees in the United States / Tika Lamsal -- 15. Glocalizing the Composition Classroom with Google Apps for Education / Daniel Hocutt and Maury Brown -- Afterword-Navigating Composition Practices in International Online Environments / Kirk St. Amant and Rich Rice -- About the Authors -- Index "How writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. A global audience presents many challenges: writers seeking to contact and connect with individuals from different cultures must rethink their concept of audience, but prepare to address friction from cross-cultural rhetorical situations"--Provided by publisher