Contents -- Introduction: The Passions that Mark Us: Teaching, Texts, and Technologies / Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe -- I. Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World -- 1. From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies / Dennis Baron -- 2. Saving a Place for Essayistic Literacy / Douglas Hesse -- 3. The Haunting Story of J: Genealogy As A Critical Category in Understanding How a Writer Composes / Sarah J. Sloane -- 4. "English" at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual / Gunther Kress -- 5. Petals on a Wet Black Bough: Textuality, Collaboration, and the New Essay / Myka Vielstimmig -- 6. Response: Dropping Bread Crumbs in the Intertextual Forest: Critical Literacy in a Postmodern Age / Diana George and Diane Shoos -- II. Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic World -- 7. Beyond Imagination: The Internet and Global Digital Literacy / Lester Faigley -- 8. Postmodern Possibilities in Electronic Conversations / Marilyn M. Cooper -- 9. Hyper-readers and their Reading Engines / James Sosnoski -- 10. "What is Composition . . . ?" After Duchamp (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext) / Geoffrey Sirc -- 11. Access: The A-Word in Technology Studies / Charles Moran -- 12. Response: Speaking the Unspeakable About 21st Century Technologies / Bertram C. Bruce -- III. Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World -- 13. Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique / James E. Porter -- 14. On Becoming a Woman: Pedagogies of the Self / Susan Romano -- 15. Fleeting Images: Women Visually Writing the Web / Gail E. Hawisher and Patricia A. Sullivan -- 16. Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution: Images of Technology and the Nature of Change / Cynthia L. Selfe -- 17. Into the Next Room / Carolyn Guyer and Dianne Hagaman.

18. Response: Virtual Diffusion: Ethics, Techné and Feminism at the End of the Cold Millennium / Cynthia Haynes -- IV. Searching for Notions of Our Postmodern Literate Selves in an Electronic World -- 19. Blinded by the Letter: Why Are We Using Literacy as a Metaphor for Everything Else? / Anne Frances Wysocki and Johndan Johnson-Eilola -- 20. Family Values: Literacy, Technology, and Uncle Sam / Joe Amato -- 21. Technology's Strange, Familiar Voices / Janet Carey Eldred -- 22. Beyond Next Before You Once Again: Repossessing and Renewing Electronic Culture / Michael Joyce -- 23. Response: Everybody's Elegies / Stuart Moulthrop -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.