Based on your search assignment last week, where you picked a term — “digital scholarship” or “multimodal composition” (or related) — here’s the list of key issues we created in class tonight:

• consumers vs. producers
• generational issues
• copyright/legal issues
• who is doing digital media?
• interdisciplinary uses (tech writing, science, math, poetry, psych)
• education uses and resistance
• publication in digital journals/litmags
• preservation — what will happen to e-texts?
• tools
• data collection – e/valuation
• ethical research practices
• remixing
• multimodal instruction sets
• lack of standards for digital scholarship
• pedagogy: what gets replaced?
• in vs. out of school writing
• devaluing multimodal literacies
• how do we convince others of its value?
• how do we/I/you understand // reading and assessment practices
• which mode/medium/technology/genre to use when and for what audience (“rhetorical choices”)
• credibility issues (“schmooze” factor)
• digital literacies (who is digitally literate and who isn’t?)

Then, in our list of what we didn’t find in our searches and hoped/expected to find:

• definition(s) of multimodal composition
• digital rhetoric journals
• discussions of interactivity
• academic vs. popular texts
• hoped for more “webtexts”, but found more links to books, articles
• disciplinarity question (why is MM comp in English?)
• media literacy courses (why not have an equivalent of Eng 101, Com 110 in media literacy?)
• Second Life
• who should we be reading?
• who are our examples?
• is there a canon?