Mary P. Sheridan

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  1. Making Future Matters
    Abstract

    Making Future Matters explores the consequentiality of our scholarly activity through examples that both shed light on and enact complex possibilities of mattering.

  2. Introduction
  3. Mary P. Sheridan: What Matters in the Worlds We Encourage
  4. Paul Prior: Trajectories of Semiotic Becoming
  5. Melanie Yergeau: Wandering Rhetoric, Rhetoric Wandering
  6. Jacqueline Rhodes: Becoming Utopias
  7. Afterword
  8. Patrick Danner: Becoming Data
  9. Michelle Day: On Trauma and Safety
  10. Layne Porta Gordon: Transformation and Agency in Activist Scholarship
  11. Jaclyn Hilberg: Bringing Racism to Matter
  12. Keri Mathis: Matters in Digital Texts and Archives
  13. Caitlin Ray: Disability in Rhetoric and Composition Research
  14. Chris Scheidler: Making Future Space
  15. Rick Wysocki: The World Outside the (Web)Text
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  19. Articulating “Responsivity” in Context: Re-making the M.A. in Composition and Rhetoric for the Electronic Age
    doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2008.11.003
  20. Kairos and Community Building: Implications for Literacy Researchers
  21. Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook
    doi:10.2307/4140686
  22. Contested knowledge: Technological literacies and the power of unacknowledged disciplinary investments
    doi:10.1016/s8755-4615(02)00134-2
  23. The Stuff that Myths Are Made of
    Abstract

    This article modifies Donna Haraway's concept of (counter) myth building as a way to facilitate social action. Counter myth building, as both a resource and a process, recognizes limitations on individual agency but foregrounds the productive capacity to be more than a social and historical construct. Because myths are multiple and enactments are unpredictable, both building and enacting counter myths are at best complicated. GirlZone and RadioGirl provide two sites for investigating these complications. As grassroots projects, GirlZone and RadioGirl are explicitly devoted to building counter myths as part of an activist agenda for social change. These sites illustrate how the complex semiotic and material processes of myth building may provide potential resources for these and other activists.

    doi:10.1177/0741088301018004002

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