[ecrea] CFP Computers & Composition

Computers & Composition 32.3 (Special Fall 2015 Issue)

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Digital Composition for the 
International Media Ecosystem

EDITORS

Kirk St.Amant, East Carolina University
Rich Rice, Texas Tech University

OVERVIEW

Digital media have permanently changed how we think about writing 
processes. By removing many conventional barriers of time and space, 
technological affordances allow us to reach broadly distributed global 
audiences instantly and directly. Moreover, the international adoption 
of information communication technologies (ICTs) means the messages one 
creates in a local setting (e.g., a local community meeting or a 
neighborhood coffee shop) can be read, shared, commented on, or 
re-purposed by persons with a range of linguistic, cultural, and 
national backgrounds in the international media ecosystem. This online 
global context, however, raises a range of key questions for how global 
readers think about rhetoric and composition and how we teach digital 
composing practices to our students.

o What do factors of language, culture, international economics, and 
global geopolitics mean for how we teach composition in the age of the 
global Internet?

o How do language, culture, and geopolitics affect how we compose 
messages for globally distributed audiences?

o What variables must we consider and what approaches can we use to 
better understand and address communication needs inside and outside the 
classroom?

o What approaches can we use to provide students with meaningful and 
successful educational experiences in relation to vastly disparate 
global online contexts?

TOPICS

o How aspects of  local infrastructure (power supply, WAN/LAN 
connections, broadband speed) affect composition practices in global 
online contexts

o How legal aspects such as software registration, copyright issues, 
open vs. closed/proprietary technologies impact composition practices in 
global networked environments

o How mobile technologies can play a interactive role in global online 
teaching, learning, and composing

o How late-20th century theories of culture and international 
communication (e.g., those of Edward T. Hall, Geert Hofstede, Arjun 
Appadurai, Roland Robertson, Manuel Castells) need to be retooled in the 
21st century to address the new online nature of composing for global 
audiences

o How locally contextualized educational practices should be adapted to 
teach composition in global classrooms

o How do we consider, navigate, and address different cultural 
rhetorical conventions when teaching writing and composition in 
international online contexts

o How different uses of technology to provide online instruction in 
writing and composition (e.g., MOOCs, social media, content management 
systems) should be reviewed with an eye toward offering instruction to 
globally distributed online audiences.

PROPOSALS

400-500 word proposals for this special issue are due to the guest 
editors by (4/15/2014), and they should include

o Topic and focus of the proposed article
o Method to be used to examine or explore this topic
o Objective of the examination of this proposed article
o Connections to previous research in the field
o An outline of the topics that will be covered in the article.

Send questions and proposals to the guest editors at  
(kirk.stamant /at/ gmail.com) and (rich.rice /at/ ttu.edu).

TIMELINE

o Proposals due: April 15, 2014
o Invitations to submit full articles: May 15, 2014
o Draft manuscripts due: September 15, 2014
o Reviews returned: November 15, 2014
o Revised manuscripts due: February 15, 2015
o Final decisions to authors: April 1, 2015
o Special issue published: September, 2015



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Dr. Rich Rice, Associate Professor
Director, TTU English Media Lab
http://richrice.com


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