Dissertation
Mobility and the digital page
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2010
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006104
Abstract
As digital media and computers have become essential components in contemporary communication, the field of composition and rhetoric must re-evaluate its focus in composition classrooms due to increasing student literacy in multimedia environments. This dissertation investigates how students compose multimodal composition in a research study of a First Year Composition course. Students in this study created comic books on an issue of social concern and were surveyed on their experience both using computers to write before entering college and using a computer to create comic books during the assignment. This study informs the process of digital mobility, a process of conceptual and performative interaction on the digital screen, that students undergo in creating multimodal composition. This study also undergirds a need to expand the field of composition to accommodate such multimodal composition and give students increased opportunities to make meaning in other modes beyond alphabetic text while studying the ways students compose in a digital interface.
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- Title
- Mobility and the digital page
- Creators
- James Alan Haendiges
- Contributors
- Barbara J. Monroe (Co-Chair) - Washington State University, Department of EnglishPatricia Ericsson (Co-Chair) - Washington State University, Department of EnglishKristin Arola (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 170
- Identifiers
- 99901055120801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation