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| Introduction | |
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| Defining CrossCurrents | |
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| Finding Common Ground | |
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| Questioning CrossCurrents | |
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| Technological Beginnings | |
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| Reading Image-Texts and Contexts | |
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| Student Sample: Draft of Blog Analysis | |
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| Contributing to the CrossCurrents | |
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| Additional Writing and Composing Assignment | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter One | |
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| Information Literacies | |
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| Defining Information Literacies | |
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| Strategies for Reading and Writing Online | |
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| Readings | |
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| Plato, Phaedrus | |
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| 'Is Google Making Us Stupid? | |
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| What the Internet is Doing to our Brains' | |
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| 'Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants' | |
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| 'People of the Screen' | |
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| 'Splintering Literacies' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Two | |
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| Shared Memories/Shared Identity | |
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| Memory and Memorial | |
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| The Narrative | |
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| Editorial Cartoons | |
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| The Argument | |
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| Pop Culture and Memory: Television | |
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| Readings | |
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| Struggling with History and Memory' | |
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| 'The Soldier and the Rap Star: A Tale of Two Post-9/11 Students' | |
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| Commentary: 'Who Killed the Editorial Cartoon?' | |
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| 'After tornado in Joplin, Mo., area man remembers 1953 Beecher tornado' | |
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| 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and Muslim Americans: The Need for a New Narrative' | |
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| 'Teddy bears, lab goggles, letters remember Virginia Tech victims' | |
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| 'At Arlington National Cemetery, mementos for latest war dead get more personal' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Three | |
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| Gendered Viewpoints | |
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| Literacy in a Visual World | |
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| Cultural Cues: Semiotics | |
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| Selling Gender | |
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| Gender for All Ages | |
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| Invention Strategy: Images as Artifacts | |
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| Readings | |
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| 'Bimbos and Rambos: The Cognitive Basis of Gender Stereotypes' | |
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| 'Europe Takes Aim at Sexual Stereotyping in Ads' | |
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| 'Learn to Love Your Tree, Baby: When a Cosmetics Company Launches a Campaign for Real Beauty, You Know Feminism is in Deep Trouble' | |
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| 'How to Sell Body Sprays to Teenagers? | |
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| Hint: It's Not Just Cleanliness' | |
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| 'On the Map: Breastfeeding is Best for Baby… But for Babydolls?' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Four | |
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| Gaming Worlds | |
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| Being you or someone else in a gaming world | |
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| Worlds of created realities | |
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| Second Life as case study | |
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| The rules of gaming worlds | |
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| Gaming worlds are real worlds | |
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| Learning the rules of created worlds | |
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| What these worlds can teach us as writers | |
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| Readings | |
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| 'Excerpts from I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life' | |
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| 'Appendix A: A Declaration of the Rights of Avatars' | |
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| 'Is Your Avatar Giving You an Identity Crisis?' | |
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| 'It's Perverse, But It's Also Pretend' | |
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| 'The Games We Play: The Whitewashing of Video Games' | |
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| 'Griefer Madness' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Five | |
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| Community Relations | |
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| Community Literacy | |
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| The Definition | |
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| Readings | |
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| Learn and Serve America, 'What is Service Learning?' | |
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| 'Proclamation: Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance' | |
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| 'How Higher Education is Integrating Diversity and Service Learning: Findings from Four Case Studies' | |
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| National Service Learning Clearinghouse Disaster Services, 'Strategic Plan' | |
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| 'Habitat for Humanity Teen Service Project' | |
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| 'Transform Your Ideals into Action' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Six | |
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| Social Networks | |
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| Virtual Communities | |
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| Commonplaces Online | |
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| Online Citizenship | |
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| Choosing Your Online Citizenship | |
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| Living with Fellow Citizens | |
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| Invention Strategy: Using Online Videos as Commonplace | |
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| Readings | |
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| 'Obama and Twitter: White House Social Networking' | |
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| 'Don't Post That: Networking Etiquette Arrives' | |
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| 'Cyberbullying Suicide Stokes the Internet Fury Machine' | |
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| 'China Adds Layer of Web Surveillance with a Rule Seeking Users' Names' | |
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| 'Generation Why?' | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Seven | |
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| Human Ecologies | |
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| Readings | |
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| 'Walden 2.0' | |
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| ''Farmville' project with real animals launched by National Trust' | |
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| 'Climate Debate in Word Clouds: The Conflicting Discourse of Climate Change' | |
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| 'Ix-nay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology' | |
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| 'One Million Workers, 1 Million Worker | |
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| 90 Million iPhones | |
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| 17 Suicides. Who's To Blame?' | |
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| 'E-Waste is Killing Ghanaians Slowly' | |
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| 'Computers' | |
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| Reading and Writing Strategy: Toulmin Logic.Technological Beginnings | |
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| Additional Writing and Composing Activities | |
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| Online Resources for Chapter Eight | |