Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing (Advances in Discourse Processes) - Softcover

Johndan Johnson-Eilola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567502814 ISBN 13: 9781567502817

Publisher: Praeger (UK), 1997

Synopsis

This volume examines the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory, radical and border pedagogies, and technology criticism, the text discusses three primary ways hypertext is articulated: as automated book (technical communication), as virtual commodity (online databases), and as environment for constructing and exploring multiple subject positions (postmodern hypertext in composition and literature). I would recommend the entire book to researchers and academics who recognize the need to integrate new technologies into our classrooms and pedagogies. - Technical Communication

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"Johnson-Eilola has started this much needed dialogue between global and local inquiries, a dialogue that ultimately may change what academics and industry people respectively create and produce in hypertext environments."-IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication

"Nostalgic Angels successfully speaks to both the initiated and the uninitiated on the articulation and rearticulation of one mode of communication in cyberculture, hypertext. It is a refreshing and reassuring book that blends postmodern and composition theory."-Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

?Johnson-Eilola has started this much needed dialogue between global and local inquiries, a dialogue that ultimately may change what academics and industry people respectively create and produce in hypertext environments.?-IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication

?Nostalgic Angels successfully speaks to both the initiated and the uninitiated on the articulation and rearticulation of one mode of communication in cyberculture, hypertext. It is a refreshing and reassuring book that blends postmodern and composition theory.?-Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies

?Those technical communicators who work in hypertext have probably already gotten themselves a copy of this text (and those who haven't should)....[e]xpands the field of hypertext, technical communication, and composition and deserves an appropriately expanded audience of critical readers.?-Journal of Business and Technical Communication

"Those technical communicators who work in hypertext have probably already gotten themselves a copy of this text (and those who haven't should)....[e]xpands the field of hypertext, technical communication, and composition and deserves an appropriately expanded audience of critical readers."-Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Synopsis

This volume examines the complex, contradictory discourses of hypertext. Using theoretical material from cultural theory, radical and border pedagogies, and technological criticism, the text discusses three primary ways hypertext is articulated: as automated text (technical communication), as virtual commodity (on-line databases), and as environment for constructing and exploring multiple subject positions (post-modern hypertext in composition and literature).

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger (UK)
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567502814
• ISBN 13: 9781567502817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282