Thinking globally, composing locally: rethinking online writing in the age of the global Internet

Includes bibliographical references and index.How writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. A global audience presents many challenges: writers seeking to contact and connect with individuals from different cultures must rethink their concept of audience, but prepare to address friction from cross-cultural rhetorical situations.--Provided by publisher.Digital notebooks: composing with open access / Josephine Walwema -- Disjuncture, difference, and representation in experience mapping / Minh-Tam Nguyen, Heather Noel Turner, and Ben Lauren -- Lessons from an international public forum: literacy development in new media environments / J.C. Lee -- Reconstructing ethos as dwelling place: on the bridge of 21st century writing practices (eportfolios and blogfolios) / Cynthia Davidson -- Considering global communication and usability as networked engagement: lessons from 4c4equality / Liz Lane and Don Unger -- Ludic is the new phatic: making connections in global, internet-mediated learning environments / Suzanne Blum Malley -- The MOOC as a Souk: writing instruction, world Englishes, and writers at scale / Kaitlin Clinnin, Kay Halasek, Ben Mccorkle, Susan Delagrange, Scott Lloyd Dewitt, Jen Michaels, and Cynthia L. Selfe -- "Resources are power": writing across the global information divide / Amber Engelson -- Activity theory, actor-network theory, and culture in the 21st century / Beau S. Pihlaja -- Examining digital composing practices in an intercultural writing class in Turkey: empirical data on student negotiations / Ma. Pilar Milagros -- Writing center asynchronous/synchronous online feedback: the relationship between e-feedback and its impact on student satisfaction, learning, and textual revision / Vassiliki Kourbani -- Clicks, tweets, links, and other global actions: the nature of distributed agency in digital environments / Lavinia Hirsu -- Connecting the local and the global: digital interfaces and hybrid embodiment in transnational activism / Katherine Bridgman -- Globally digital, digitally global: multimodal literacies among Bhutanese refugees in the U.S. / Tika Lamsal -- Glocalizing the composition classroom with Google Apps for Education / Daniel Hocutt and Maury Brown -- Afterword: navigating composition practices in international online environments / Kirk St. Amant and Rich Rice