I sent the following email to the WPA-L, WAC-L, and techrhet lists today. If you know of any others who might be able to respond, please send them my way.

As part of a WAC graduate seminar I am taking with Marty Townsend at the University of Missouri, I am doing a research project on WAC and digital literacies. I am using “digital literacies” much as Hawisher, Selfe, Boraski, and Pearson use “literacies of technology” to mean the ability to “design, author, analyze, and interpret [and also exchange] material on the Web and in other digital environments…” (“Becoming Literate in the Information Age,” CCC, June 2004, 642).

I believe WAC is in a good position to support digital literacies, but want to know more about what may be happening at various institutions. If you are (or were) a WAC, CAC, or ECAC administrator, I would be grateful for a quick response to six short questions:

  1. Where do you administer a WAC, CAC, or ECAC program? When did you begin? For how long?
  2. What specific digital literacies do you support or encourage?
  3. What types of digital literacies do you practice in your own research, teaching, and service?
  4. How do you stay abreast of or learn new digital communication skills? (What do you read versus what do you do?)
  5. What misgivings, if any, do you have about supporting, encouraging, or learning digital literacies?
  6. Are you aware of any book length projects currently under development with regard to WAC and digital literacies? If so, what are they and who are the authors?

Please reply to mmh989 AT mizzou DOT edu. May I have your response by Friday, April 21, 2006? Thank you in advance for your time.

Marcia Hansen