Anne Frances Wysocki
Anne is Associate
Professor of Visual and Digital Communication in the Humanities Department
at Michigan Technological University. She teaches courses in visual and verbal
composition, visual rhetoric, and new media; she is also Director of the Writing
Programs and of Graduate Teaching Instructor Education. She is lead author
of Writing New Media: Theory and applications for expanding the teaching
of composition, which won the 2005 Computers and Writing Distinguished
Book Award, and her compositions have appeared in Computers and Composition,
Kairos, and the Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators,
as well as in many books. Her interactive new media piece, “Leaved Life”
was one of three winners of the Institute for the Future of the BookĖs 2005
Born Digital Competition. She has done multimedia and curriculum design for
clients like Apple, the Los Angeles Conservations Corps, Microsoft, the Corporation
for National Service, and Public/Private Ventures. Samples of her new media
work are online here
and here.
Johndan Johnson-Eilola
Johndan works as a Professor
in the Department of Communication and Media at Clarkson University, where he teaches courses in web design,
information architecture, mass media, and new media. He is the author of the books include Datacloud: Toward a New
Theory of Online Wor, Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing, and a co-author of Writing New Media.
Other published work has appeared in journals and edited collections including Computers and Composition, Kairos,
Technical Communication Quarterly, and The Journal of Computer Documentation. For the last several years, he has
published the weblog Datacloud on an irregular basis (with likewise irregular content).