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IText

Future Directions for Research on the Relationship between Information Technology and Writing

Cheryl Geisler

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Charles Bazerman

University of California at Santa Barbara

Stephen Doheny-Farina

Clarkson University

Laura Gurak

University of Minnesota

Christina Haas

Kent State University

Johndan Johnson-Eilola

Clarkson University

David S. Kaufer

Carnegie Mellon University

Andrea Lunsford

Stanford University

Carolyn R. Miller

North Carolina State University

Dorothy Winsor

Iowa State University

Joanne Yates

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Most people who use information technology (IT) every day use IT in text-centered interactions. In e-mail, we compose and read texts. On the Web, we read (and often compose) texts. And when we create and refer to the appointments and notes in our personal digital assistants, we use texts. Texts are deeply embedded in cultural, cognitive, and material arrangements that go back thousands of years. Information technologies with texts at their core are, by contrast, a relatively recent development. To participate with other information researchers in shaping the evolution of these ITexts, researchers and scholars must build on a knowledge base and articulate issues, a task undertaken in this article. The authors begin by reviewing the existing foundations for a research program in IText and then scope out issues for research over the next five to seven years. They direct particular attention to the evolving character of ITexts and to their impact on society. By undertaking this research, the authors urge the continuing evolution of technologies of text.

Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 15, No. 3, 269-308 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/105065190101500302


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