Writing New Media
INSTRUCTORS

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).