Featured Speakers
Last year's keynoters were fascinating and challenged us. This year's featured speakers will approach the question "How might teacher-scholars map the progress of technology in our reading and writing classrooms?" from a variety of experiences and approaches. Sreenivasan and Bolter are both interested in the effect of New Media on society. Bolter examines how mediated spaces affect the remediated, virtual, and networked self. Sreenivasan synthesizes trends in culture and their relation to New Media and ethnicity. Jones is a science fiction writer who explores gendered telematics, social data communications between systems and devices. Star and Stanley work in corporate and ethnographic information system infrastructures. And Hawisher and Selfe are experts at pointing out how when the going gets tough, there are still ways to ride on.

	Gwyneth Jones writes science fiction and fantasy for both adults and young people. She has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke four times, most recently for her novel North Wind, the second in the Aleutian series. That series began with White Queen (1991) which was co-winner of the James Tiptree Award, given for science fiction exploring gender roles. She was one of the judges for that award in 1996. Her young-adult novel, The Fear Man (written as Ann Halam, 1995) won the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award in 1996. Her fairy tale collection, Seven Tales and a Fable, published by Edgewood Press, won a World Fantasy Award in 1996. Recent publications include Phoenix Cafe (1997), the third novel about the Aleutians; a ghost story called Crying in the Dark (as Ann Halam); and a collection of critical essays, Deconstructing the Starships (1998). Check out sample fiction about a short, gritty history of a small, seedy rock venue, non-fiction about the future of gender, and STAR: South-coast Telematics Aspirational Reader. Gwen shares http://www2.prestel.co.uk/dreamer/ with Ann Halam.
	Susan Leigh Star's research is in the sociology of science and technology, especially concerned with new information technologies and life sciences. She's a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Susan has analyzed work practices and knowledge production in a range of venues, including museums, laboratories, hospitals, libraries and high-tech research and development sites. Her analytic approach draws on symbolic interactionism, activity theory, and feminist theory. Publications include Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (1999), The Cultures of Computing (1995), Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology (1995), and Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty (1989). Reviewing her courses on the Ethnography of Information Systems and notion of ethnoclassification, as well as her critical work on the importance of social infrastructures, points to an intriguing presentation. More information about Susan can also be found at http://communication.ucsd.edu/people/f_star.html.
	Jay David Bolter is Wesley Professor of New Media and Director of the Center for New Media Research and Education at the Georgia Tech School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. That's a mouth-full. He says it best on it best on his website: "My primary interest is the computer as a new medium for verbal and visual communication." His widely influential publications include the Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age (1984) and Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing (1991). Bolter created Storyspace, a hyptextual authoring program, with Michael Joyce. In his new book, entitled Remediation: Understanding New Media (2000), written in collaboration with Richard Grusin, Bolter explores the ways in which new digital media, such as the World Wide Web and virtual reality, borrow from and seek to rival such earlier media as television, film, photography, and print.
	Kelly Stanley is Vice Chairman, President, and CEO of Ontario Corporation, headquartered in Muncie, Indiana. Ontario is a diversified family of technology companies that operates in three distinct industries: semiconductor equipment manufacturing, metallurgical and environmental laboratory testing services, and computer software and hardware systems development. Stanley also happens to be the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chairman. Based in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Chamber is the world's largest business advocacy organization. It represents nearly 3-million companies. See this press release for more information about the type of work Kelly Stanley does.
	Sreenath Sreenivasan is Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Part-Time Program for Working Professionals at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He specializes in training journalists to speak the different media "languages" of print, new media, and broadcast. Sree is a freelance technology writer, a professional critiquer of web sites, and networking guru. He has recently written for publications and companies like Time Digital, Business Week, The New York Times, India Today, Rediff.com, Rolling Stone, and PBS. Sree co-founded SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association. He also serves as faculty adviser to Columbia's Society of Professional Journalists Chapter (he won the group's "National Faculty Adviser of the Year" award for 1998), and is active with the Online News Association, which he helped co-found in 1998. Most recently Sree coordinated the Online Journalism Awards. See http://www.sree.net/ to learn more about Sree, to gain valuable tips on web research and freelancing, or to review some of his work on New Media or Ethnicity and E-Culture.

Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe are phenomenal individuals and an absurdly incredible team. Gail is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She currently serves on the National Council of Teachers of English Executive Committee and is also a member of the Modern Language Association's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies. Cynthia is Professor of Composition and Communications at Michigan Technological University. She also serves on NCTE's Executive Committee, including Conference on College Composition and Communication Chair, 1997-1998. Any attempt to begin to share the significance of their individual and shared work can not do it justice. Their varied teaching, research, and leadership roles have radically shaped not only the computers and writing community but the practice of teaching English in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary instituions across the world. From founding and co-editing journals and presses such as Computers and Composition, to serving as editorial reviewers for numerous high quality journals, to publishing such canonical collections as those in the New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies series, their contribution to education is unparalleled.

Proposal Reviewing
223 proposals were submitted. Proposals are read by many different people in the computers and writing field. This year's reviewer feedback will be shared with submitters with acceptance letters as part of the mentor program.

submission deadline		17 22 OCT 2000
extended submission deadline		22 OCT 2000
hardcopy acceptance letters mailed		8 JAN 2001
registration form due		20 APR 2001
the conference		17-20 MAY 2001

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