What is Digital Writing? A Twitter Essay

jessifer — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:00:58 +0000

We’ve spent the month doing big things, like this and this and this. Over 75 people wrote a 42,000+ word collaborative novel in a Google Doc. Over 150 people turned zombie on Twitter. We wrote poems. I wordled a month’s worth of e-mail (32,366 words). @Dogtrax made a webcomic series. And I cried twice (here and [...]

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Your Voice in Mine

Featured Writer — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:00:22 +0000

Anna Smith is an educational researcher and teacher educator blogging about composition in the digital age, contexts for learning, theories of development, and global youth. In this piece, she ponders the way that audience and author get blended in digital writing, and wishes DigiWriMo a fond farewell. Your Voice in Mine by Anna Smith How [...]

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Dance : Work : Learn : Teach : Write

Featured Writer — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:16:57 +0000

Robin Wharton is an editor for and contributor to Hybrid Pedagogy. As well since 2005, she has been a collaborator on the <emma> project. Her interests include medieval and early modern law and literature, critical legal studies, and the Digital Humanities. In this piece, Robin reflects on her experience as a dancer, and how our creativity [...]

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Code:Poem

jessifer — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:49:57 +0000

[Computer code] has its own rules (syntax) and meaning (semantics) … Code can speak literature, logic, maths. It contains different layers of abstraction and it links them to the physical world of processors and memory chips. All these resources can contribute in expanding the boundaries of contemporary poetry by using code as a new language. Code [...]

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When Writing Digitally, Nobody Knows You’re a Duck

Featured Writer — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:00:37 +0000

Chris Friend is a Trustees Doctoral Fellow at the University of Central Florida. As part of the Texts and Technology program, his dissertation will focus on how composition courses are adapted for online study. In this piece, Chris invites us to consider online personae — those we construct, and those we read. When Writing Digitally, Nobody [...]

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Creative Beasts with Crayons

Sean Morris — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:15:45 +0000

Digital writing is emergent writing. It mutinies at the imposition of form, the edicts of the grammars of old. It rails to change the rules. It raises the flag of anarchy. The council of digital writing is one of spontaneity, rambunctiousness, the aloof horror of invention, the frenetic joy of dismantling what came before, and [...]

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A Public Literary Twitter Role-Play

Featured Writer — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:00:30 +0000

Petra Dierkes-Thrun’s research and teaching interests include the European and transatlantic fin de siècle and modernism (including literature, the visual arts, opera, dance, and film); feminist and queer theory; LGBTQ literary and cultural studies; and literary theory. Her book, Salome’s Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression, was published by The University of Michigan Press in [...]

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#NoWDigi: Found Storify/Twitter Poem

Sean Morris — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 06:59:09 +0000

The Internet is teeming with digital words just ripe for repurposing. In this exercise, participants created a veritable pumpkin patch of words and phrases to be used in a found Storify/Twitter poem. Here’s how: Beginning at the top of the list of the list below, they responded to as many of the prompts below as [...]

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#NoWDigi: Short Story Relay

Sean Morris — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:12:09 +0000

When working with digital writing, collaboration can be both synchronous and sequential. During this activity, you’ll be co-writing parts of a short story with the group at your assigned table (if you are online, choose any table, introduce yourself to the group, and keep up), and collaborating with the larger group to complete several short [...]

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#NoWDigi: Hybrid Poem

Sean Morris — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 03:01:00 +0000

To get us started with the Night of Writing Digitally, we’ll be writing a collaborative hybrid poem inside of a Google Doc. Those of you who joined us for Digital Writing Month midnight launch will recognize this exercise. But tonight, there’s one added element: the folks on the ground at Marylhurst University! There’s no telling [...]

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