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I've linked my thesis proposal (and blog) below. Don't panic, it's only an overview. The thesis itself will measure in at about 100 pages once it's done in Spring 2008. If you're not accustomed to academic writing please forgive the formality of the prose. It might seem a bit stuffy at first, but give it some time. There are actually a few really cool ideas bouncing around here. And, believe it or not, the concepts discussed in this paper affect each and every one of us who owns or operates a computer!
You'll need adobe acrobat installed on your computer to read the proposal. If you don't already have acrobat, you can download the latest version here for free.
Read the proposal (PDF): Computer Mediated Communication: A Shift of New Writing Technologies Toward the Organic as Illustrated by Online Literary Journals
My masters thesis research explores the works and scholarship of Jay David Bolter, N. Katherine Hayles, Roy Ascott, M. Christine Boyer, Sherry Turkle, Donna Haraway, Gregory Ulmer, Shelley Jackson, Vannevar Bush, Michael Joyce, Erkki Huhtamo, Annette Markham, and many others.
Check out my thesis research weblog: The Accidental Scholar
The future of communicaton, identity, and reality can be better understood in terms of electracy. In Future Identity Today: Ideology, Electracy, and Identity Formation, I discuss how Gregory Ulmer's neologism intersects with Sherry Turkle's views of identity and the teachings of Louis Althusser.
The second orality may provide the means to resuscitate communication to a richer state, where both oral and literate traditions influence the way we perceive our world.
In The Zeus of Nonprofit Publishing I recall how social perspective and rhetoric transformed a small but powerful publication. A brief discussion takes academics Carolyn Miller and Lester Faigley into account.
Is our ethics based on the efficiency with which we disseminate information, rather than on the information itself? Read Expediency in Professional Communication.
Style is taking over communication. In this tech forward age it's all about aesthetics. So, what's to stop us from botching it all up? It's All Semantics.
We as "professional writers" are charged to remain with whatever profession we start in, or - worse yet for many - wind up in... Are we selling our own blubber? I mean, will there come a point when all "professional writers" go extinct? Read Jack(ass) of all Trades.
