Complicated women: Examining methodologies for understanding the uses of technology

Pamela Takayoshi

Computers and Composition Vol. 17, No. 2 (2000) pp. 123–138

In this article, I call for more complicated understandings of the relationship between women and technology, arguing that two interpretive frameworks interfere with our current representations of women and technology: a reliance on what Paul ...

Language: English

Writing the Culture of Computers: Students as Technology Critics in Cultural Studies Classes

Pamela Takayoshi

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Vol. 23, No. 3 (1996) pp. 198–204

Suggests that the study of computers in cultural studies classes prepares students to think skeptically and critically about the value, worth, and application of computers in education and life in general. Presents writing assignments within a...

Building New Networks from the Old: Women's Experiences with Electronic Communications

Pamela Takayoshi

Computers and Composition Vol. 11, No. 1 (1994) pp. 21–35

Presents research to support the argument that patterns of interaction deeply entrenched within a patriarchal system cannot be undermined simply by offering access to a new medium such as computer-mediated communication. Claims that, in moving away...

Short-form writing: Studying process in the context of contemporary composing technologies

Pamela Takayoshi

Computers and Composition Vol. 37, No. 1 (September 2015) pp. 1–13

In this article, I argue that writing studies scholarship has little understanding of what happens when writers compose the short-form, networked writing which is increasingly prevalent across the culture. Situated within the existing broad...

Language: English

The shape of electronic writing: Evaluating and assessing computer-assisted writing processes and products

Pamela Takayoshi

Computers and Composition Vol. 13, No. 2 (1996) pp. 245–257

Three features of electronic texts have been theorized as changing writing and writing instruction: the creation of a seamless flow of text, word publishing as a rhetorical act, and hypertextual writing and thinking. This article argues that these...

Language: English

Young People's Everyday Literacies: The Language Features of Instant Messaging

Christina Haas; Pamela Takayoshi

Research in the Teaching of English Vol. 45, No. 4 (May 2011) pp. 378–404

In this article, we examine writing in the context of new communication technologies as a kind of everyday literacy. Using an inductive approach developed from grounded theory, we analyzed a 32,000-word corpus of college students' Instant Messaging (...

No boys allowed: The World Wide Web as a clubhouse for girls

Pamela Takayoshi; Emily Huot; Meghan Huot

Computers and Composition Vol. 16, No. 1 (1999) pp. 89–106

Although popular representations of the World Wide Web depict it as an inhospitable and sometimes dangerous space for girls, there are increasing numbers of young women who actively navigate the author girl-friendly and empowering sites. Many...

Language: English