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Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom

Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom

Stephanie N. Phillips
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522505624|ISBN10: 1522505628|EISBN13: 9781522505631
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0562-4.ch001
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Phillips, Stephanie N. "Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom." Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, edited by Kendra N. Bryant, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0562-4.ch001

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Phillips, S. N. (2017). Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom. In K. Bryant (Ed.), Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media (pp. 1-13). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0562-4.ch001

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Phillips, Stephanie N. "Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom." In Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, edited by Kendra N. Bryant, 1-13. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0562-4.ch001

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Abstract

As the landscape for communication changes with new and evolving digital technologies, the format for college composition classrooms must change and adapt as well. If we are moving towards compositions that are created by and mediated through a screen, we must adopt new approaches for talking about and teaching these new forms of language and communication. During the fall 2014 semester, I was given the opportunity to teach a composition class focused on digital rhetoric. As a facet of the classroom experience, my students created and used Twitter accounts for fictional characters. Utilizing Twitter within the composition classroom allowed students to compose as a part of a much larger network of actors that interact with the texts they create. As a form of networked communication, the compositions created by students through this medium demanded interaction and engagement in a way that a classroom composition, shared only between student and instructor, does not.

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