The time has come for an edited collection of essays on wikis
\nentitled The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of
\nCyberspace.<\/p>\n
\nWikis are without a doubt one of the most interesting and
\nradical of the new writing media available to the wired
\nsociety, yet they also one of the most misunderstood. Many of
\nus know of them only by encounters with “that wacky website
\nanybody in the world can edit,” the (in)famous Wikipedia, that
\nis showing up more and more in our students’ works cited
\nlists. For others, wikis represent the incarnation of the
\nopenness, decentralization, and collaboration dreamt of by the
\nInternet’s founders. For those of us in the computers and
\nwriting community, wikis represent a fertile field for
\nrhetorical analysis and one of the richest opportunities for
\nteaching writing in the classroom.
\nThe time has come for an edited collection of essays on wikis
\nentitled The Wild, Wild Wiki: Unsettling the Frontiers of
\nCyberspace. Editors Matt Barton and Robert Cummings would like
\nto invite you to submit your thoughts for a volume on the
\ntheory, politics, future, and application of wikis for
\nteachers of college composition (and beyond). These essays
\nwill be organized into the following three categories:
\n* Theory and Politics: 12-25 page essays that discuss wiki
\nissues from theoretical perspectives. Such essays might
\nexamine how knowledge gets constructed and legitimated in
\nwikis, or how wiki users negotiate authorship. Do wikis
\nliberate or erase identities? What roles, if any, should
\ncopyright laws play in the regulation of wiki discourse? Why
\nis that the most famous wiki happens to be encyclopedic; could
\nother types of discourse flourish in wikis? How do wikis
\nremediate other media, old or new? What can you do with a wiki
\nthat you can’t do with any other media? Should we think of
\nwikis as related to the open source phenomenon through
\nCommons-Based? Peer Production and, if so, does this predict
\nhow and where wikis will expand? Do wikis fundamentally alter
\nthe practice of revision? The concept of collaboration?
\n* Applications: 8-12 page essays that examine how teachers can
\nuse wikis in the classroom. This includes assignments
\ninvolving Wikipedia, but also creating new wikis specifically
\nfor classroom use. The essays here will look at practical
\napplications as well as limitations and technological matters
\n(How hard is it to install a wiki? What kind of support is
\nneeded? What are the differences among the many wiki servers
\nnow available? Can a classroom wiki achieve critical mass or
\nlow cost content integration? What are the ethical
\nimplications of asking students to write in a wiki where
\nwriters, other than their teachers, make editorial decisions
\nabout their text? Do contributions by student writers, as part
\nof a class assignment, differ substantially from those offered
\nfreely by self-selecting wiki contributors?)
\n* Lore: 6-12 page narratives that describe teachers’
\nexperience using (or reacting) to wikis in their classrooms.
\nHow have you been using wikis in your writing or teaching?
\nWhat went right and what went wrong? What would you do
\ndifferently next time? How have you assessed writing in wikis?
\nWe also plan to “eat our dogfood” during this project–in
\nother words, we will be using wikis extensively to plan,
\ndraft, review, and revise the essays in our collection. All
\nauthors will share in the reviewing and editing process. We
\nalso hope to secure a publisher who will allow us to publish
\nunder a Creative Commons license rather than traditional,
\nfull-blown copyright. Our goal is to produce a volume of
\naccessible and engaging works that will help secure wikis a
\nprominent place in composition.
\nTentative Timeline:
\nAbstracts: October 10, 2005
\nAbstract acceptances: October 17, 2005
\nSubmissions Deadline: May 1, 2006
\nNo simultaneous submissions. We also cannot accept previously
\npublished essays. Send your enquiries, queries, or abstracts
\nto either of the co-editors:
\nMatt Barton
\nmdbarton@stcloudstate.edu
\n(320) 308-3061 (phone)
\n(320) 308-5524 (fax)
\nDept of English
\n720 Fourth Avenute South
\nSt. Cloud, MN 56301-3061<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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