"Exposing the Sole of the Academy with Web 2.0: A Move Toward Radical Transparency"

Please join the computers and writing community online, February 22-26, 2008, at http://www.uwstout.edu/cas/english/cwonline for the Computers and Writing Online Conference. Registration is now open. There is no fee attached to this conference. Michael Wesch and Danielle Nicole DeVoss are the featured keynote speakers.

The academy faces Web 2.0 as students, faculty, researchers, and administrators engage in writing with technology, as they collaborate and share in the building of knowledge. The proliferance, potentiality, and power shifts created by the end users of such tools as Wikis, blogs, podcasts, and social bookmarking are affecting how we write with and are written by technology. Let's face it, Web 2.0 has infiltrated the academy and is here to stay. Consideration of how Web 2.0 affects academic society and culture should be reexamined in light of how Web 2.0 is linking people together as they construct knowledge.

We encourage you to join in the conversation. If you are faculty, please inform your students of this conference opportunity as well (no travel, no fee - a great opportunity for students without conference travel funding).

Presentation papers will be available for review by Feb. 1, 2008, at the conference website. We offer several venues for presentations this year, emphasizing Web 2.0. The presentations look to be quite interesting. Hope to see you there!

Questions? Email Mialisa Moline and Michael Martin, co-chairs.

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