• Barthes, R. (1975). The Pleasure of the Text. New York: Doubleday.


• Barthes, R. (2002). Rhetoric of the image. In Mirzoeff, N. (Ed.) The visual culture reader (2nd ed; pp. 135-138). London: Routledge.


• Stefans, B.K. (2005, November 5). Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing. electronic book review. Retrieved September 23, 2006. Object for Study

Literature and composition instruction

• Blau, S. (2003). The Literature Workshop. New Hampshire: Heinemann. (See Chapter 2: From Teaching to Telling)


• Lunsford, A.A. (2006). Writing, technologies, and the fifth canon. Computers and Composition, 23 (2), 169-177.


• Rosenblatt, L. (1965). Literature as Exploration. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.

Media studies (visual rhetoric, meaning making, digital literacy)

• Aarseth, E. J. (1997). Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.


• Branch, R.M. (2000). A taxonomy of visual literacy. In Pailliotet, A.W. & Mosenthal, P.B. (Eds.). Reconceptualizing literacy in the media age. Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press.


• Chorney, T. (2005, December 12). Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past. Academic Commons. Retrieved September 23, 2006. Object for Study


• DeCertau, M. (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.


• Gee, J.P. (2003). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York: Macmillan.


• Glister, P. (2000). Digital literacy. In Pea, R. (Ed.). The Jossey-Bass reader on technology and learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Inc.


• Jenkins, H. (1992). Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Cultures, (pp. 50-85). New York: Routledge.


• Lemke, J.L. (2004). Metamedia literacy: Transforming meanings and media. In Handa, C. (Ed.) Visual rhetoric in a digital world. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s.


• Manovich, L. (1002). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.


• McPherson, T. (2002). Reload: Liveness, mobility and the web. In Mirzoeff, N. (Ed.) The visual culture reader (2nd ed; pp. 458-470). London: Routledge.


• Pailliotet, A.W. (2000). Introduction: Reconceptualizing literacy in the media age. In Pailliotet, A.W. & Mosenthal, P.B. (Eds.). Reconceptualizing literacy in the media age. Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press.


• Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, 9 (5), 1-6.