What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds?

Andrea Lunsford, Rebecca Rickly, Michael Salvo, and Susan West


George Landow, Jay David Bolter, and Richard Lanham have contributed book-length studies of the challenges, and the opportunities, offered to literary studies by the electronic revolution. And in composition studies, we now have an entire journal, Computers in Composition,  devoted to exploring these relationships--as well as a number of dissertation studies, articles, and books by scholars such as Sarah Sloane, Cindy Selfe, Gail Hawisher, Helen Schwartz, and Myron Tuman. What I have been trying to suggest is that, in spite of the lessons we've learned from Foucault, it matters "who" writes and responds--it matters theoretically, and it matters, most demonstrably, practically and commercially. And it "matters" precisely because of that third key word in my title--ownership.
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