CFP: Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless & Mobile Technologies
for Composition Teachers and Scholars

Integration of wireless and mobile technologies on college and university
campuses has steadily risen over the past seven years. The 2002 Gartner
DataQuest's campus computer survey reports that "70 percent of U.S. college
campuses had some local area wireless network coverage, while 10 percent had
full campus coverage" (Akin, 2003, p. 91). In addition, Comscore Networks
claims that "10 million Americans surf [the Web] from cell phones and PDAs"
(Ellison, 2003, p. 64). In the fall of 2001, the University of South Dakota
required all entering students to purchase a Palm PDA (Akin, 2003, p. 92).
Experts in mobile technologies predict that handheld devices like PDAs will
become as ubiquitous in workplaces and college campuses as the desktop computer
(Weiser, 1998; Chen, 1999). This migration to wireless and mobile technologies
means a shift in the pedagogical and curricular spaces typically reserved for
writing instruction.

Going Wireless will offer a mix of practical and theoretical insights on
wireless and mobile technologies to rhetoric and composition teachers,
scholars, and administrators. Serving as a resource for theoretical
explorations on wireless and mobile technology use and its effects on computer
and composition teaching and research as well as a handbook for the members of
the rhetoric and composition community charged with the responsibilities of
integrating, supervising, and evaluating wireless and mobile technologies,
Going Wireless will focus on a range of wireless and mobile technologies.

Possible topics for Going Wireless include, but are not limited to, the
following:

Designing, Maintaining, and Teaching in Wireless Composition Classrooms and
Campuses
Using Mobile Technologies to Teach Composition
Integrating Critical Theory into Wireless and Mobile Curricula
Teacher Development for Wireless and Mobile Pedagogies
Spatial and Visual Rhetorics of Wireless and Mobile Technologies
Diversity, Difference, and Equality on Wireless and Mobile Networks
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Class in the Wireless and Mobile Composition
Course
Wireless and Mobile Technologies and Material Culture
Social Movements and Wireless and Mobile Technologies
Composition Research and Wireless and Mobile Technologies
PDAs, RFIDs, Wi-Fi, SMS, Cell Phones, Tablet PCs, and Their Potential
Influences on Teaching and Learning
Rhetorical Inquiries on Wireless and Mobile Technology Movements
Distance Education and Wireless and Mobile Technology Integration
M-learning Initiatives and their Impact on Writing Courses
Wireless Web for Writing and Research
Writing Centers and Wireless and Mobile Technologies
Security and Privacy on Wireless Networks
Consumerism and Wireless and Mobile Technologies
Identity Formation and Subjectivity Related to Wireless and Mobile
Technologies

500-750 word proposals for Going Wireless should cover theoretical and practical
aspects of wireless and mobile technologies. Proposals should 1) emphasize the
pedagogical and theoretical shifts that influence the use of wireless and
mobile technologies in composition curricula and research and 2) enrich the
readers? practical and technical understandings of these resources.

Deadline for 500-750 word abstracts (formatted as .doc or .rtf): September 30,
2004
Deadline for chapter manuscripts: December 30, 2004
Deadline for final chapter manuscripts: June 30, 2005

Please email abstracts to Amy C. Kimme Hea, University of Arizona,
kimmehea@u.arizona.edu.

Prospective authors are encouraged to contact Amy if they have any questions.

Feel free to print or send this CFP to potential contributors.