Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
Webb, Patricia Rose
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Description
Title
Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
Author(s)
Webb, Patricia Rose
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Gail Hawisher
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Technology of
Language
eng
Abstract
The three sites I have chosen to focus on--composition classrooms, a corporate software publisher, and a community network--follow my own scholarly progression. All three sites illustrate that to question subjectivity involves an engagement with the multiple institutions that not only shape technology usage, but also construct the possible subject positions we can inhabit at the close of the mechanical age. I argue that we need to challenge traditional narratives of self by encouraging collaborative inquiry aided by technologies.
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