For those who missed WIDE Co-directors Jeff Grabill & Bill Hart-Davidson's 2007 CCCC panel presentation Visualizing Writing Processes: Writing as Coordination of Culture and Technology (along with Julie Lindquist), the Power Point slides from Grabill &  Hart-Davidson's are availble to download here. 

In their presentation, Grabill and Hart-Davidson asked:

1. How does the day-to-day activity of composing unfold in the social and technological scenes that constitute emerging literacies?

2. What strategies for coordinating socio-technical resources reveal themselves to be important, particularly effective, and/or
persistent literacy practices?

Specifically, Grabill focused on "Where Has Process Gone? Looking for Research Farther Afield."

Hart-Davidson discussed "Using Time-Use Diaries to Study the Mediated Action of Composing."

Jim Porter was a featured speaker at the 20th Penn State University Conference on Rhetoric and Composition in State College, PA, on July 8-10, 2007. The conference theme was "Rhetoric and Technologies." Porter's paper, entitled "Recovering Delivery for Digital Rhetoric," focused on how the rhetorical canon of delivery can be re-theorized and re-applied in the service of digital writing.

http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/rhetoric/default-104.htm

Stacey Pigg, WIDE graduate student research assistant, also presented at the Penn State Conference. Pigg's talk, "Check Yes or No: Ebonics, Survey Memes, and Viral Subjectivity in the New Blogosphere," described how bloggers using one online blog hosting site constructed themselves as subjects either by using the term "Ebonics" in response to an online survey, or by responding to an online survey question that contained the word "Ebonics." Paying attention to this strange confluence of writing form and content led her to consider not only how particular kinds of attitudes toward Ebonics develop and circulate online, but also how particular kinds of cultures form when this individual act happens repeatedly.

"The first thing that struck me while attending and presenting at SIGDOC this year is the true interdisciplinarity of the conference—we often employ that descriptor as a vaguely positive attribute, but SIGDOC includes all kinds of work on communication technologies and the design of communication, broadly conceived. Accompanying this is the diversity in audience; SIGDOC attendees are a mix of academics and industry professionals, which leads to fascinating questions and opportunities for conversation.

Because the conference is relatively small, SIGDOC participants can attend all (or nearly all) of the conference presentations across the three session days. For me, this was valuable not only in terms of being able to see and listen to everyone else’s work, but also in terms of the connections that were built across sessions throughout the conference. The discussions at SIGDOC were some of the most insightful and engaging conversations that I’ve been a part of, and the ability to make reference to and frame the work of the conference participants as a whole allowed these rich conversations to develop."

Former WIDE Research Assistant Kendall Leon will be presenting WIDE related work at two conferences in October.
Kendall will be presenting work at “Cyberfem Civics: Reimagining Alternative Cyberscapes” with fellow MSU Rhetoric and Writing PhD students Angela Haas, Stacey Pigg, & Robyn Tasaka at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference in Little Rock, AK. She will also be presenting “Bringing New Community Engagement Research Into Rhetoric and Composition Studies” along with fellow MSU Rhetoric and Writing PhD student Jeffrey Steichman will be presenting at the 7th International Research Conference on Service-Learning and Community Engagement in Tampa, Fl.

• a fully relational object database that stores user-contributed content
• a user profile system that enables social networking
• a folksonomic (tagging) system that facilitates user-generated organizational categories and metadata
• faceted browsing and recommender functions that allow users' activities, interests, ratings etc. to influence what they see
• file management functions (upload, sort, full-text search)
• content management functions (collaborative authoring/wiki, versioning,
• role-based permissions and workflows
• mapping (via Googlemaps API)
• feeds (RSS)
• mail and messaging (e.g. SMS)
• custom document markup