Greetings, ENGL 494! I’m writing you tonight—somewhat bleary-eyed and just a few hours before deadline, sound familiar?—with the hope that you will join me in an academic social experiment. The goal of our experiment will be to produce a public, student-driven dialogue that questions assumptions about two things: the potential of student writing, and the […]

Draft introduction to the dissertation: The Cyborg University as Reproductive Organ of the Cyborg World In December of 2015, I was part of a team at The CUNY Graduate Center that launched a beta version of Social Paper, a student-directed tool for networking writing. While the tool is not perfect, it is intended to mark a […]

Student writing is a waste product, a valueless byproduct in the production of literate citizens. It doesn’t have to be. Here I argue we can give it new purpose and dignity by establishing a student-directed, durable commons for student writing.

Could a free software movement within higher education enlarge freedom for software culture and the global student body alike? Here I suggest one possible path and make a plea for support.

I argue that process, not publicity, must guide the design of our digital writing tools. Thought’s right to publicity or privacy is as important as its right to reflect upon the twists and turns of its own long term development. InProgressBeGentle.