Composing Media Composing Embodiment

Name: Composing Media Composing Embodiment
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ISBN: 9780874218800

ISBN-10: 0874218802

ISBN-13: 9780874218800

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kristin L. Arola, Anne Wysocki

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“What any body is—and is able to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts.” ---from the Introduction.Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. InComposing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment),they havebrought together a powerful set of essays that agree on the need for compositionists—and their students—to engage with a wide range of new media texts. These chapters explore how texts of all varieties mediate and thereby contribute to the human experiences of communication, of self, the body, and composing. Sample assignments and activities exemplify how this exploration might proceed in the writing…

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List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 3/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Into Between-On Composition in Mediation




Media = Embodiment



Drawn Together: Possibilities for Bodies in Words and Pictures




Pausing to Reflect: Mass Observation, Blogs, and Composing Everyday Life




Authoring Avatars: Gaming, Reading, and Writing Identities




How Billie Jean King Became the Center of the Universe




Information Cartography: Visualizations of Internet Spatiality and Information Flows




Multimodal Methods for Multimodal Literacies: Establishing A Technofeminist Research Identity




Writing against Normal: Navigating a Corporeal Turn



Activities for Part 1



Mediating Bodies ^ Mediated Bodies



Crafting New Approaches to Composition




Bodies of Text




Whose Body?: Looking Critically at New Interface Designs




Queerness, Multimodality, and the Possibilities of Re/Orientation




It's My Revolution: Learning to See the Mixedblood




Visible Guerrillas




Affording New Media: Individuation, Imagination, and the Hope of Change



Activities for Part 2


Works Cited


Index


About the Authors