Cross-Cultural Collisions in Cyberspace: Case Studies of International Legal Issues for Educators Working in Globally Networked Learning Environments

Martine Courant Rife

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 7, No. 2 (2010) pp. 147–159

This article explores some of the legal and law-related challenges educators face in designing, implementing, and sustaining globally networked learning environments (GNLEs) in the context of conflicting international laws on intellectual property...

The fair use doctrine: History, application, and implications for (new media) writing teachers

Martine Courant Rife

Computers and Composition Vol. 24, No. 2 pp. 154–178

Writing teachers have always had to contend with plagiarism. However, the technology of the Internet and the thorny issues of copyright law complicate how we teach legal and ethical use of others’ materials in the networked classroom. Our pedagogy...

Language: English

The visual rhetoric of the family photo: One cyborg's story

Martine Courant Rife

(2005) pp. 1–152

In this partially autobiographical text that challenges the "invisible" intellectual gaze, the author explores how beginning in the early 1900's United States, her "white middleclass" family attempted to seamlessly construct a neatly packaged vision ...

About Face: Mapping Our Institutional Presence

Aimée Knight; Martine Courant Rife; Phill Alexander; Les Loncharich; Dànielle Nicole DeVoss

Computers and Composition Vol. 26, No. 3 pp. 190–202

In this article, we situate the web sites of technical and professional writing programs as important institutional spaces that serve as interfaces to particular values, beliefs, and practices. Specifically, we examine the ways in which the web...

Language: English

Revisualizing Composition: How First-Year Writers Use Composing Technologies

Jessie L. Moore; Paula Rosinski; Tim Peeples; Stacey Pigg; Martine Courant Rife; Beth Brunk-Chavez; Dundee Lackey; Suzanne Kesler Rumsey; Robyn Tasaka; Paul Curran; Jeffrey T. Grabill

Computers and Composition Vol. 39, No. 1 (March 2016) pp. 1–13

Reporting on survey data from 1,366 students from seven colleges and universities, this article examines the self-reported writing choices of students as they compose different kinds of texts using a wide range of composing technologies, both...

Language: English