Timothy W. Luke & Jeremy Hunsinger 
Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play 

These collected papers are critical reflections about the rapid digitalization of discourse and culture. This disruptive change in communicative interaction has swept rapidly through major universities, nation states, learned disciplines, leading businesses, and government agencies during the past decade. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) at Virginia Tech, which has been a pioneering leader for many of these changes in university settings, the contributors to this volume examine the transformative implications of digitalizing discourse and culture inside and outside of the academic arena. These technologies of digitalization have created new communities of users, which are highly engaged with their new communicative possibilities, informational content, and discursive forms. Few have asked what these changes will mean, and many of the most important voices engaged in debates about this critical transformation are gathered here in this volume. Each author in his or her own way considers what accepting digital discourse and informational culture now means for contemporary economies, governments, and societies.

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Introduction; The Book Unbound: Reconsidering One-dimensionality in the Internet Age; Fluid Notes on Liquid Books; What Can Technology Teach Us about Texts? (and Texts about Technology?); Open Works, Open Cultures, and Open Learning Systems; Textscapes and Landscapes: A Settler Poet Goes On-line; Reweaving the World: The Web as Digital Discourse and Culture; Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects; From Gunny Sacks to Mattress Vine: Notes on Douglas Engelbart. Tim O’Reilly, and the Natural World; The Pleasures of Collaboration; Info-citizens: Democracy, Expertise and Ownership in European Research Funding; The New River: Collected Editors’ Notes; On the Origins of the Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital Culture; Culture, Media, Globalization; Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle; A Short History of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture; Digital Research and Tenure and Promotion in Colleges of Arts and Sciences: A Thought Piece; Contributors.