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The authors of Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History
conclude their analysis of pedagogy and technology where
hypertext popularly beginswith the Web's birth in the early '90s
and its diffusion through widespread usage of graphic reading browsers
like Mosaic and Netscape. Trapped between my temporal mix and hypertext is
this historical collection.
Missing from this history of computers and writing, though,
is the rhetoric
of electronic writing my DJ performance attempts to
construct.
The editors
highlight memorable computers and composition moments leading up to 1994,
but not how technology rhetorically functions
or produces knowledge
(it might have been too early to ask such questions). One comment, however,
foregrounds what continues to be a problem in developing alternative
technology-based pedagogical approaches within composition studiesand which motivates my project. Speaking about the early '90s, Selfe et al.
remark:
Many teachers and school administrators remained undereducated about
technology, and hence, technology was often used to support traditional pedagogical
approaches rather than innovative teaching
methods. (262)
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