Remapping Narrative: Technology’s Impact on the Way We Write (Gian Pagnucci, Nick Mauriello)

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This volume is an exploration of the future of narrative discourse. The authors have identified six potential paths, drawing patterns of narrative and visual, pedagogy and possibility. The volume begins with Tales of the Digital Self. By telling stories we define ourselves. This struggle to understand who and what we are is even more amplified on the Web where identity is almost liquid. The authors in the second section picture how stories will be told in the future. In Pixels of Heroes and Heroines, we reconnect the future of narrative discourse to its literacy roots. Although it is important to consider the forms narratives will take in the future, it is equally important to consider how these stories will be taught. This is the issues the authors take up in Stories From Wired Desktops. Chapters move into the realm of the political in Views of Techno-Identity and Virtual Spaces. The volume concludes with the chapters in Critical Reflections on Project UNLOC. Contents: INTRODUCTION: PROJECT UNLOC: UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVE, LITERACY, AND OURSELVES IN CYBERSPACE. Remapping Narrative Technology’s Impact on the Way We Write, Gian Pagnucci and Nick Mauriello. TALES OF THE DIGITAL SELF: INTERSECTIONS OF NARRATIVE, TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY. “Diets Suck!” and Other Tales of Women’s Bodies on the Web, Lisa Gerrard. The Presence of Interlocuters vs. the Sites of the Internet: The Restricted Range of Disability Narratives, Ellen Barton. MOSAICS OF NARRATIVE OPTOMETRY: DIGITAL NARRATIVES/VISUAL LITERACY. Moving From Print to Digital Media, Susan M. Katz and Lee Odell. PIXELS OF HEROES AND HEROINES: LITERATURE HITS CYBERSPACE. Desire and Slow Time: Reading Charlotte Bronte in the Information Age, Myron Tuman. Ulysses Unbound: Examining the Digital (R)evolution of Narrative Content, Todd Rohman and Deborah H. Holdstein. STORIES FROM WIRED DESKTOPS: TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY. Stories of Technology: Shaping School Landscapes, M. Shaun Murphy and D. Jean Clandinin. Whose Stories? Whose Realities? The Materiality of Narratives in the Electronic Writing Classroom, Patricia Webb Peterson. VIEWS OF TECHNO-IDENTITY AND VIRTUAL SPACES: WEB POLITICS AND INTERNET RESISTANCE. An Exile Collage: Politics, Stories, and Resistance in Cyberspace, Gerardo Contreras, Michele Petrucci, and Gian Pagnucci. Culture Wise: Narrative as Research, Research as Narrative, Jennifer Cohen, Paula Mathieu, Erec Smith, James Sosnoski, Bridget Harris Tsemo, and Vershawn Ashanti Young. Writing is Public on the Internet (and That’s Good). Catherine F. Smith. CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON PROJECT UNLOC. “People Do What They Know”: Some Accounts of Participation in Project UNLOC, Christina Haas with Kathryn Weiss. A Bibliographic Research Project, Gerardo Contreras and Robert Wallace. Bibliography. About the Contributors. Author Index. Subject Index.