Kairos CoverWeb: Issues of New Media

We are very pleased to bring you this CoverWeb on new media. As editors of the CoverWeb section, we wanted to provide readers with some detailed thoughts on this topic. Feel free to explore such issues as:

• introductions to each text in this issue,
• the history behind and reasons for choosing new media for this issue,
• how we define new media for this issue and distinguish it from other genres of online scholarship,
• why new media is necessary to explore in scholarship,
• the changes in editorial processes we struggled with because of the new media texts we encountered,
• and a complete works cited for the above nodes.

We have provided links to each of the five texts in this section below. We hope you enjoy this CoverWeb as much as we have! We encourage questions, comments, and responses to these texts. Please feel free to comment by emailing us at coverweb@cfcc.net. We will post any responses we receive.

Enjoy!
Cheryl E. Ball & Beth L. Hewett, CoverWeb Co-Editors
Julia Makosky, CoverWeb Assistant Editor

The Performed Argument in/of New Media Texts
Adrian Miles, ed.: "Violence of Text: An Online Academic Publishing Exercise"
[reviewed by Daniel Anderson & Talan Memmott]

Veronica Austen: "Writing Spaces: Performances of the Word"
[reviewed by Geoff Sirc & Ingrid Ankerson]

Pedagogy of New Media
Alexander Reid: "New Media's Long History and Global Future: The Uniplanet Project"
[reviewed by Victor Vitanza & N. Katherine Hayles]

Daniel Anderson: "Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum"
[reviewed by Joel English & Megan Sapnar]

Heather Ross: "Digital Video and Composition: Gauging the Promise of a Low-Maintenance High-Reward Relationship"
[reviewed by Anne Wysocki & Thom Swiss]

Note to our reader/viewers: Some of the texts that contain digital video may take patience when loading (Miles, Anderson, Ross). For some texts, you may want to have access to a modem faster than a dial-up connection. Having patience is, unfortunately or not, one of the by-products of new media scholarship. Consider it a perfect time to get coffee.

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definitions of new media | paying attention to new media
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