Dr. Cheryl E. Ball » editorially-reviewed

“Review of NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media & Culture”

cball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:06:45 +0000

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2002). Review of NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media & Culture. In Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 7(3).
http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/7.3/binder.html?reviews/ball/index.html

abstract
NMEDIAC: The Journal of New Media and Culture is an online, peer-reviewed journal housed on the ibiblio server. The site is “a collaboration between the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s MetaLab, formerly known as SunSITE, and the Center for the Public Domain” (”about ibiblio“). The premise of NMEDIAC (pronounced inmediacy) is to publish “papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses.” It is the journal’s intention to approach writing about new media through a “Cultural Studies and ‘critical Internet Studies’” lenses. When the inaugural issue hit the Web, I hoped the journal would fill a gap in scholarly new media studies. It does prove to do so — if in fits and starts — based on the first two issues.

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“Review of Inside the Communication Revolution”

cball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:03:49 +0000

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2003). Review of Inside the communication revolution: Evolving patterns of social & technical interaction, Robin Mansell (Ed.). Journal of Business & Technical Communication, 18, 248–251.

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not available; closed-access publication

“Review of Writing Spaces, 2nd edition”

cball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:01:42 +0000

citation
Ilyasova, Ksenia, & Ball, Cheryl E. (2004). Review of Writing spaces, 2nd ed., by Jay David Bolter. Technical Communication Quarterly, 13, 135–138.

abstract
self-explanatory

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Not available; Closed-access publication.

“States of Digital Scholarship: Review Essay”

cball — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:59:23 +0000

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (forthcoming, Jan. 2010). States of digital scholarship: Review essay of Scholarship in the digital age by Christine Borgman and Planned obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, 14(2).

abstract
A multimodal review essay of two prominent “books” about digital scholarship, Christine Borgman’s (2007) Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s online, CommentPress version of her forthcoming book with NYU Press, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.

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to come

“Picturing Texts Website”

cball — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:35:37 +0000

citation
Ball, Cheryl E. (2004). Picturing Texts [Website]. New York: W.W. Norton. http://www.picturingtexts.com

abstract [from site]
Redefining composition to include conscious attention to images and design, Picturing Texts is a writing textbook that teaches how to compose visual texts as well as how to read them. This Web site is a repository of useful materials for working with the book. It includes online readings, with suggested focus and respond sections [coordinating with the structure of the print book]; guidelines for writing for the Web; links to resources on the Web that will help students do the kind of work invited by Picturing Texts; and more.

This website accompanies the writing/composition textbook Picturing Texts (Selfe, Cynthia; Faigley, Lester, George, Diana; & Palchik, Anna; W.W. Norton, 2004). I wrote the content for 7 interactive chapters and 3 sections of ancillary materials for the website.

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Picturing Texts website

see also

Picturing Texts instructor’s manual