Dr. Dene Grigar, Assistant Professor TWUMOO Venus Login Back to class home page Email me with questions or comments   Course Materials and Daily Activities

Thursday, July 15 Social and Cultural Contexts Course materials for today: From Computers and Composition 1. Aschauer's "Tinkering with Technological Skill" 2. Sullivan's "Wired Women Writing" 3. Takayoshi's "No Boys Allowed" 4. Burns's "The Writers We Happen to Teach" In-class: 1. Discuss all essays 2. Catch up on all readings 3. Discussion of feminist theories To prepare for next time: Read: Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace" Peterson's "Sex and the Cybergirl" Bruckman's "Finding One's Own" Gilboa's "Elites, Lamers, Narcs, and Whores" Look over: "Gender and Technology Bibliography." http://mcs.open.ac.uk/gentech/bilbio.html Marcy Bauman. "Review." http://www.umd.umich.edu/~marcyb/ww.html Robin Morris. "Review." http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ramorris/wirewom.html Elizabeth Weise. "A Whole New Female World Online, in Just Three Years." Contact Me Back to Daily Course Materials Back to Front Page Back to Home Page