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Wills, Katherine V. – 2001
This paper examines online corporate university artifacts to bring to light additive definitions of literacy. Rhetorical analysis in the paper shows four claims made about literacy in the corporate university artifacts: literacy is knowing the corporate culture; literacy provides immediate and quantifiable benefits; literacy is easily accessible…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Communities, Literacy, Rhetoric
Dudfield, Angela – 1999
This paper traces the range of literacy events that occur in one cybercommunity whose members are participants in the ongoing role play, "Cybersphere." A sample text produced by users within the community serves as the focus for critical analysis and offers a rich example of the ways in which language is being used within cyberculture.…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities