Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Xiaojing, Liu, Richard J. Magjuka, Curtis J. Bonk, and Seung-hee Lee. “Does Sense of Community Matter? An Examination of Participants’ Perception of Building Learning Communities in Online Courses.” Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 8.1 (2007): 9-24
In “Does Sense of Community Matter?” the authors explore the idea that a sense of community in online education classes [...]

Nixon, Helen. “New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” Reading Research Quarterly 38.3 (Summer 2003): 407-413.
“New Research Literacies for Contemporary Research into Literacy and New Media?” raises several questions important both to Nixon and the researchers looking into the literacies that surround various medias new to exploration. Nixon argues that with [...]

Hagood, Margaret C. “New Media and Online Literacies: No Age Left Behind.” Reading Research Quarterly (Summer 2003): 387-391.
Margaret Hagood’s “New Media and Online Literacies” asserts that in order to understand the full benefit of literacy acquisition through new medias researchers must use a close examination of the texts they study in order to comprehend the [...]

Hobbs, Renee and Richard Frost. “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills.” Reading Research Quarterly. 38.3 (Summer 2003): 330-355.
In “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills” (2003), Hobbs and Frost explore the acquisition of media-literacy skills in a yearlong high school English course and demonstrate how this class improved the literacy of the students. Examining one specific [...]

Goodfellow, Robin: Online Literacies and Learning: Operational, Cultural and Critical Dimensions. Language and Education 18.5 (2004): 379-399.
In “Online Literacies and Learning,” Robin Goodfellow argues that online environments provide immense ways of improving the social literacies of todays students and examines a manner of research which explores the variation in relationships between teacher and student both [...]