The move from the traditional classroom to the networked classroom involves a drastic change in the space of learning. The traditional classroom has a limited time and space that is familiar to students. Although many different kinds of issues may be brought into the class, the teacher and students remain in a secure, distanced space that reinforces the binaries of academia/real world, thought/action. The space and time of the Networked class, however, oozes beyond the space of the classroom and the time of the class meeting. Via media such as the web, the MOO, and e-mail, students and teachers may explore a world of sources beyond syllabus reading requirements, and they may share their own work with an interactive world-wide audience. I do not claim that the NWE is a utopic environment. It is the traditional academic environment, the ivory tower of critical distance, that has been ascribed a utopic position. The Networked Writing Environment, I contend, has as a spatial and temporal character that is better suited to dealing with the experience of the terrortory of transglobal, postmodern culture.

A fellow graduate student at Florida, Tom Cohen, explores some of these issues in his essay "Deconstructing the Moo: Virtual Architecture, Power and Representation."