دانلود رایگان مقاله فرم کوتاه نوشتن: روند بررسی در زمینه فناوری کامپوزینگ معاصر

Abstract

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 disciplinary understanding of writing and technology as cultural practices with literacy, data-based pictures of what writers are doing in situ with contemporary writing technologies provide an additional necessary layer of understanding to the ways writing technologies intersect with and impact what writers do with language. I argue that as a field we should also pay close, systematic attention to writers’ writing processes, in particular, developing an understanding of writers composing with short-form, interactive writing. I build these arguments through analysis of examples drawn from a study of eight Facebook writers’ composing processes captured in think-aloud screencast videos.

5. Composing short-form texts in Facebook

As these detailed accounts of two Facebook writers suggest, informing the brief and seemingly trivial written compositions posted to Facebook is a complex, fleeting, and richly rhetorical process of decision-making. By focusing our attention on the processes of composing short-form writing (as opposed to the textual short-form products), we are less likely to dismiss these writing processes as meaningless or trivial, and instead see them for what they are: complex meaning-making acts using written language symbol systems. Although Dan and Sherry’s composing processes in these brief episodes of socially networked writing certainly share many features with what we know about composing processes generally, this picture of their composing choices also suggests that constraints and affordances arising from the technological, interpersonal, and cultural contexts of short-form, socially networked writing distinguish it from other writing contexts, forms, and functions.