Digital media has become an increasingly powerful force in modern society. This volume brings together outstanding European, American and Australian research in "writing and digital media" and explores its cognitive, social and cultural implications. The book is divided into five sections, covering major areas of research: writing modes and writing environments (e.g. speech technology), writing and communication (e.g. hypervideos), digital tools for writing research (e.g. web analysis tools, keystroke logging and eye-tracking), writing in online educational environments (e.g. collaborative writing in L2), and social and philosophical aspects of writing and digital media (e.g. CMC, electronic literacy and the global digital divide).In addition to presenting programs of original research by internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines, each chapter provides a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art in the field and suggests directions for future research. This wide-ranging international volume presents the very best of current thinking in the field and will be indispensable to anyone doing or contemplating work in the area, both for established researchers as well as newcomers, including graduate students. It reviews European, American and Australian research in the cognitive, social and cultural implications of writing for digital media. It addresses writing modes and environments, writing and communication, digital tools for writing research, online educational environments, and social and philosophical aspects. It is indispensible for anyone doing or researching work in the area, from academics to practitioners and the general public.
Author(s): Luuk van Waes, MariA«lle Leijten, Chris Neuwirth
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 366
Cover......Page 1
Writing and Digital Media......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
Section I: Writing Modes and Writing Environments......Page 24
Assistive Technology for Writing: Tools for Struggling Writers......Page 26
Young Writers and Digital Scribes......Page 36
Repair Strategies in Writing with Speech Recognition: The Effect of Experience with Classical Dictating......Page 46
Section II: Writing and Communication......Page 62
Learning to Write in the Information Age: A Case Study of Schoolchildren’s Writing in Sweden......Page 64
Ludicity and Negotiated Meaning in Internet Chat......Page 80
Knowledge Acquisition by Designing Hypervideos: Different Roles of Writing during Courses of “New” Media Production......Page 92
Section III: Digital Tools for Writing Research......Page 104
Web Analysis Tools Based on InfoScent™: How Cognitive Modelling Explain Reader Navigational Decisions......Page 106
Automated Web Site Evaluation Tools: Implications for Writers......Page 120
Mining Textual Knowledge for Writing Education and Research: The DocuScope Project......Page 130
Visualizing Patterns of Annotation in Document-Centered Collaboration on the Web......Page 146
Online Study of Word Spelling Production in Children’s Writing......Page 160
Introduction, Overview and Framework......Page 168
Logging Writing Processes with Inputlog......Page 173
Combining Keystroke Logging with Eye-Tracking......Page 181
Progression Analysis: An Ethnographic, Computer-Based Multi-Method Approach to Investigate Natural Writing Processes......Page 188
CAMTASIA and CATMOVIE: Two Digital Tools for Observing, Documenting and Analysing Writing Processes of University Students......Page 195
Section IV:Writing in Online Educational Environments......Page 202
Tools, Language Technology and Communication in Computer Assisted Language Learning......Page 204
Rethinking Instructional Metaphors for Web-Based Writing Environments......Page 214
Approaching the Skills of Writing......Page 236
Section V: Social and Philosophical Aspects of Writing and Digital Media......Page 252
Bilingual Literacy and a Modern Digital Divide......Page 254
Literacies and the Complexities of the Global Digital Divide......Page 268
Proposal for a Monument to Lost Data......Page 302
References......Page 326
Author Index......Page 358
Subject Index......Page 368
Previously Published Titles in this Series......Page 380
