Writing in the Clouds: Literacy in the Age of Peer Production

This presentation explores ways new writing spaces, new alternative genres to the essay or book, are influencing writing and reading, teaching and learning, knowledge creation and online power. By considering new writing tools, from Wikipedia to social bookmarking to music mash ups, I consider ways collaborative practices are changing, ways new genres are emerging, ways change takes place at a societal level, ways healing and therapy take place, and ways, perhaps, that we--as authors and readers--are changing in response to our new tools and communicative processes.