**C-FEST Notice**

[Cynthia Haynes <cynthiah@metronet.com>]

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                                INVITATION
                             Post-CCCC C-FEST 
                               at LINGUA MOO
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                      Thursday, May 7th, 7pm CST (8pm EDT)
                 and Wednesday, May 13th, 7pm CST (8pm EDT)
                  
                         Technology and Literacy:
              The Challenge of Paying Attention (and Acting)

          a C-Fest followup to Cynthia Selfe's Chair's Address
                  CCCC Annual Convention, Chicago, 1998

  
                         Facilitated by Eric Crump
                     In the C-FEST Forum at LINGUA MOO

                  [telnet to: lingua.utdallas.edu 8888]
                                   or
                    [WWW: http://lingua.utdallas.edu]
                 (Instructions for logging on are below)
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"...as Bruno Latour (1996) notes, real-life stories always lack richness
and accuracy when they are told from a single perspective, that of the
technologist or that of the humanist. We require multiple perspectives if
we hope to construct a robust and accurate understanding of the ways in
which technology functions in our culture."

  --from "Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of
    Not Paying Attention" by Cynthia Selfe
    http://www.ncte.org/forums/selfe/

And not only in our culture, but in the world. The internet's virus-like
spread and global reach mean it is infiltrating and influencing cultures
and people almost everywhere, even those not yet wired.

This C-Fest session will focus on questions about our awareness of the
technology situation in other neighborhoods (how many perspectives do we
recognize and know?), about our role as developers of and proponents of
technologies that affect remote people (what ethical questions emerge from
the internet's conquest of the global imagination?), about how we might
exert positive influence on the future (how might we discover and listen
to and learn from more perspectives?).

John Perry Barlow reports (with his usual delightful bombast and
unquenchable optimism) that the internet is coming to Africa, and that
African might adapt to and appropriate the new media faster than we expect
and in ways we might not predict. What do we make of such claims and how
do we get involved in that process?
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Cheers,

Cynthia and Jan



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