Digital Literacy
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Week 1	Day 7/5	Topic Web Design	Readings Due Designing for the Web
Week 2	7/10	investigating digital literacies; reading and writing in digital spaces	Jim Porter, “Why Technology Matters to Writing: A Cyberwriter’s Tale” Crawford Kilian, “Effective Web Writing” Constance J. Petersen, “Writing for a Web Audience” Scott Berkun, “The Role of Flow in Web Design” Scott McCloud, "10 Suggestions for First-Time WebComics Artists" Web Style Guide, Chapter 6: “Editorial Style” Todd Taylor and Irene Ward, Introduction to Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet Ilana Snyder, Introduction to From Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era
	7/12	investigating digital literacies: dynamics of print and digital publishing	Scott McCloud, "I Can't Stop Thinking" Chip Scanlan, “The Web and the Future of Writing” James R. Kalmbach, “Publishing Before Computers” John Dujay, “Will ‘E-books’ Make Paper Ones Obsolete?” Pew Internet and American Life Project, “Content Creation Online” Mark Zeltner, “New Media and the Slow Death of the Written Word” Scott Lloyd DeWitt, “The Current Nature of Hypertext Research in Computers and Composition Studies: An Historical Perspective” Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Amy C. Kimme Hea, “After Hypertext: Other Ideas”
Week 3	7/17	investigating digital literacies: blogs	Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, "Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture" Kevin Kelly, "We Are the Web" John Hockenberry, “The Blogs of War” "Online Weblog Leads to Firing" "How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog" David Huffaker, "The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom"
	7/19	investigating digital literacies: social networking	REQUIRED Daily Show: Martin, "Trendspotting: Social Networking" Albert-László Barabási, "The Physics of the Web" Chad Lowe, Alida Pask, and John Vickery, "The Small-World Problem: Six Degrees, Friendster, Mr. Micawber and Kevin Bacon" Molly Wood, "Five Reasons Social Networking Doesn't Work" Barry Levine, "Bill to Ban Social Sites in Schools Moves to Senate" danah boyd and Jeffrey Heer, “Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster" Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz, "It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age"
Week 4	7/24	access and divides: race, class, economies	REQUIRED Cathy Camper, “A Note from the Future” Wikipedia: Digital Divide “Perspective: What Digital Divide” Pew Internet and American Life, "Who's Not Online" Howard Besser, “The Next Digital Divide” Anthony Walton, “Technology Versus African-Americans” “Disability Statistics and Facts” W3C, “Scenarios of People with Disabilities Using the Web” WebAIM, “Introduction to Web Accessibility” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, Chapter 3: "Accessibility" John Slatin, “The Art of ALT: Toward a More Accessible Web” Donald E. Zimmerman, Michel Lynn Muraski, and Michael D. Slater, ”Taking Usability Testing to the Field” Christi-Anne Postava-Davignon, Candice Kamachi, Gregory Kushmerek, et al., “Incorporating Usability Testing into the Documentation Process”
	7/26	digital visual rhetorics: general	Meredith Badger, “Visual Blogs” Misadventures of Dick and Jane Jim Andrews, "On Lionel Kearns" Carolyn Handa, Introduction to Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World Mary E. Hocks, "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments" Craig Stroupe, “Visualizing English: Recognizing the Hybrid Literacy of Visual and Verbal Authorship on the Web” Anne Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media” Don’t Click It Christina Wodtke, "Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me: In Which the Subtle Arts of the Interface are Examined" Alistair Dabbs, “Interface Structure” Selfe and Selfe, “The Politics of the Interface: Power and its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones" Wysocki and Jasken, “What Should be an Unforgettable Face" Patricia Sullivan, “Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the World Wide Web" Leah M. Reeves et al., "Guidelines for Multimodal User Interface Design" "Opening the Space" Daniel Anderson, “Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum”
Week 5	7/31		Final Project