English 215 Course Links

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Research (discipline-specific): research; Social Sciences; More Social Science Links; Sociology; The Academy of Natural Sciences Related Link; Information Technology - Related Sites; Business General Resources (Business and Commerce); Voice of the Shuttle: General Humanities Resources Page; VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE HOME PAGE; UCLA College Library Instruction: Thinking Critically about WWW Resources; A Student's Guide to WWW Research: Web Searching, Web Page Evaluation; UNDERSTANDING AND COMPARING SEARCH ENGINES; WEB Research Tools; CTHEORY; Hotwired; The New York Times (see especially the Technology and Culture section); CNET.com- Welcome to CNET!; Wired News; Discovery Online; MSNBC; Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms

Selected On-Line Journals

CMC Magazine Index; CWRL

Web Page Design

Creating Killer Websites Online

Internet Tools Summary

WebPage Templates

WEB Research Tools

Print Culture and Electronic Media

"The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction," by Geoffrey Nunberg
Media in Cyberspace
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, abridged text by Elizabeth Eisenstein
Literary Resources on Bibliography and the History of the Book

MOOs, MUDs, and other dirt

Research on MOOs and MUDs in Teaching

Kairos: Writing Classes on the MOO--a special issue of an online journal devoted to MOOs.

Composition in Cyberspace--includes discussion of the MOOs.

Basic Introduction to MOOs

Quick Guide to Mooing--mostly but not entirely applicable to RiverMoo

RiverMoo HomePage

Another Essay on Teaching Composition Using the MOOs.

MUDs and MUDding

Writings about MU*s

MUDs and MOOs

Island Internet's FAQ

The Lost Library of MOO

Additional Readings

Acker, Kathy. Empire of the Senseless
Birkerts, Sven. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity
Doheny-Farina, Stephen. The Wired Neighborhood.
Ebo, Bosah. Ed Cyberghetto or Cybertopia? :Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet.
Godwin, Mike. Cyber Rights
Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women.
Hawisher, Gail E., and Paul LeBlanc, eds. Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age.
Hawisher, Gail E., and Cynthia Selfe, eds. Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction.
Holdstein, Deborah H., and Cynthia Selfe, eds. Computers and Writing: Theory, Research, Practice.
Holtzman, Steven. Digital Mosaics : The Aesthetics of Cyberspace.
Jackson, Shelley. Patchwork Girl
Kroker, Arthur and Michael Weinstein, Data Trash: the Theory of the Virtual Class
Ludlow, Peter, ed. High Noon at the Electronic Frontier.
Markert, Linda. The Contemporary Technology.
McLuhan, Marshall. Gutenberg Galaxy
Murray, Janet H. Hamlet on the Holodeck : The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace.
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology.
Poster, Mark. The Second Media Age.
Porush, David. The Soft Machine
Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier.
Selfe, Cynthia L., and Susan Hilligoss. Literacy and Computers: The Complications of Teaching and Learning with Technology.
Strickland, James. From Disk to Hard Copy: Teaching Writing with Computers.
Talbott, Stephen L. The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst.
Taylor and Ward, eds. Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet
Tuman, Myron C., ed. Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers.
Zuboff, Shoshana. In the Age of the Smart Machine.

English 215 Course Links

Various On-Line Readings

Informational Websites

Print Culture and Electronic Media

MOOs, MUDs, and other dirt