Required Texts

Holeton, Richard. Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1998.

Silverman, Hughes and Wienbroer. Rules of Thumb. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.

Crump, Eric and Carbone, Nick. Writing Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Online Site http://www.hmco.com/hmco/college/english/englishonline/EnglishOnline.html

Building Community in the Electronic Age

Virtual Community
• Amy S. Bruckman. "Finding One's Own in Cyberspace."
• Howard Reingold. "The Heart of the WELL."
• Choose one reading from Electronic Democracy or The Global Village
• Shirley, John. "Wolves of the Plateau."

Constructing Identity in the Computer Age

New Windows on the Self
• Ian A. Boal. "Body, Brain, and Communication: An Interview with George Lakoff."
• Charles Platt. "What's It Mean to Be Human, Anyway?"
• William Gibson. "Johnny Mnemonic."
• E. M. Forster. "The Air Ship."
• Card, Orson Scott. "The Giant's Drink."
• Choose one article from Identity section

Seeking Knowledge in the Information Age

• Craig Branham. "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW." http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/
• Dave Barry. "Selected Web Sites: At Last, Proof That Civilization Is Doomed."
• Shymala Reddy. "The Once and Future Book."
• Brenda Laurel. "Virtual Reality: A New Opposable Thumb."

Other readings will be announced in class.

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