Reading List: Due Dates for Assigned Readings

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May 25
• John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”;
• Jay David Bolter, “Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print”;
• Linda Shamoon, Public Writing, Chapter 1, “Introduction to Public Writing.”

May 27 
• Rebecca Blood, “ Weblog Ethics”;
• Meredith Badger, “Visual Blogs.”

May 30
• Kevin Kelly, “We are the Web”;
• John Hockenberry, “The Blogs of War”;
• Linda Shamoon, Public Writing, Chapter 2, “Public Documents-Forming a Public.”



June 1
• Stuart Selber, “Rhetorical Literacy”;
• Rodney H. Jones, “Technologies and Sites of Display" from The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis” (.pdf Sakai);
• Stuart Selber & Johndan Johnson-Eilola, “Commons-Based Pedagogies and the Social Turn in Technical Communciation”

June 3
• Elizabeth Daley, “Expanding the Concept of Literacy”;

June 6
• Richard Wurman, “The Business of Understanding” (sakai);
• Pew Internet and American Life, “Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life.”

June 8
• Pew Internet and American Life, “Who’s Not Online”;
• National Telecommunications Information Administration, “A Nation Online: How Americans
are Expanding Their use of the Internet;
• Lawrence Lessig, “Who Owns Culture.”

June 10
• Linda Shamoon, Chapter 4, “Informative Writing-Expanding Publicity”;
• Constance Petersen, “Writing for a Web Audience.”

June 13
• Bonnie Nardi & Vikki O’Day, “A Matter of Metaphor: Technology as Tool, Text, System, Ecology”;
• Linda Shamoon, Public Writing, Chapter 3, “Argumentative Writing-Gaining Publicity.”

June 15
• Linda Shamoon, Chapter 5, “Activist Writing, Sustaining Publicity”
• TBA

June 17 
• TBA


June 20
• TBA


June 22
• Nedra Reynolds & Rich Rice, Portfolio Keeping.
• TBA


June 24
• TBA


June 27
• TBA