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Call for Submissions

Discovering Digital Dimensions: Computers and Writing 2003 (3-D at Purdue in 2003) will be hosted by Purdue’s Department of English, the Professional Writing Program, the Rhetoric and Composition Program, and the Writing Lab from May 22–25, 2003, in West Lafayette, Indiana.

As in years past, the conference will provide diverse opportunities for engagement on issues of central concern to teachers, scholars, and writers in the emergent culture of the digital age. The theme—3-D at Purdue in 2003—stresses the importance of discovery in the many dimensions of learning, teaching, and writing as digital networks proliferate and make possible new forms of expression, suggest alternative rhetorics, and invite (re)presentation of our disciplinary histories. Conference participants will have opportunities to hear keynote addresses from well-known intellectuals, attend poster and panel sessions, interact with vendors specializing in communication technologies, and be entertained at special multimedia (3-D) events. The conference will again partner with the Graduate Research Network and the CW 2003 Online Conference. Some participants may have opportunities for earning course credit.

The conference theme, Discovering Digital Dimensions, encourages participants to look at the digital world from multiple perspectives and to consider new applications and directions for emerging technologies. Possible areas of inquiry will include but not be limited to the following topics:

• The Wired Academy: electronic communication across the curriculum; transcending disciplinary boundaries; interdisciplinarity; electronic publication; intellectual property; technology in the writing lab; computers in professional writing, technical writing, and scientific communication;

• Digital Pedagogies: teaching technology; implications and pedagogies of commercial and open source technologies; technology and writing program administration; technology and teacher training (K-12 and college); assessment;

• ESL and Technology: international and immigrant populations; global discourses and communities; electronic borders and borderlands;

• Race, Gender, Access to Technology: digital and feminist politics; technological literacies; vaporware; support and training; workplace prejudice; technological histories;

• Queer Studies: coming-out issues; teaching queer students; queer communities and computers; the teaching of queer texts in composition courses; being a queer teacher; connecting to other political and radical movements; queers and the politicization of disabilities; queers and disease.

• A/Synchronous Learning Environments: MUDs and MOOs, OWLs, IM, courseware, etc.;

• Spatiality and Electronic Architectures: archival issues; real/virtual classroom design; web design; digital libraries; eBooks; virtuality;

• Hybrid Rhetorics: visual, oral, textual, multimedia, hypertext;

• Emergent Network Cultures: film; media representations; virtual communities; digital copyright; distance learning; writing in the digital workplace.

Proposals will be due Monday, October 28, 2002. They may be submitted beginning September 16, 2002. We encourage those interested to visit the website, http://www.cw2003.org, to take advantage of online discussion venues designed to assist proposal planning and development, foster ongoing discussion of conference themes and events, and find answers for your questions.

For more information about the on-site conference, contact David Blakesley, Program Chair, Department of English, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, 765.494.3772, info@cw2003.org. The conference web site is http://www.cw2003.org.