Reclaiming Public Space Through Digital Mapping A Place-Based Approach to Mobile Composition

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Ashley J. HolmesAsst. Prof. English Georgia State University

Intersection BetweenDigital, online

spacesPhysical,

material (and often local) spaces

Public Pedagogy in Composition Studies“Schools are not the sole sites of teaching, learning, and curricula, and that perhaps they are not even the most influential.”

Sandlin, Schultz, & Burdick Handbook of Public Pedagogy

Meaningful Connections to Place

Students “using academic tools within their nonacademic lives.”

Mauk, “Location, Location, Location”

Bring a critical lens to everyday places through which students move

Mobile Composition Place-based

approach Reclaiming local,

public space Encourages the

mobile writer to (re)connect with local places

Invention Activity Write on Location Students “research, write, and (ideally)

publish on location.” “Writing in the Wild,” Olin & Pedro Schwartz

“Students write freely about their observations and experiences in different spaces and places”

“A Visual-Spatial Approach to SpontaneousComposing in FYC,” Juarez

Monica’s “Write on Location” Assignment Intrenchment Creek “This place is

disgusting. I'm not sure how much is the result of the shopping center and how much is people dumping . . .”

Monica’s Multimodal Digital Mapping Project

Google Map WordPress Site

Ayesha’s Multimodal Digital Mapping Project

Google Map Prezi

Student Reflections Had to “flatten the three-dimensional

spaces to make them work on a map.” “challenged [him] to think critically in

the physical space.” “Empathize with as many people as

possible.” “See [the world] from others’

perspectives.”

Place-Based Mobile Composition Engage with

physical places in a way that relocates rather than dislocates.

Works Cited Bjork, Olin, and John Pedro Schwartz. “Writing in the Wild: A Paradigm

for Mobile Composition.” Going Wireless: A Critical Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Composition Teachers and Researchers. Ed. Amy C. Kimme Hea. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. 223-38. Print.

Juarez, Marissa M. “A Visual-Spatial Approach to Spontaneous Composing in First-Year Composition.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 16.3 (2012). Web.

Keller, Christopher J., and Christian R. Weisser, eds. The Locations of Composition. Albany: SUNY P, 2007. Print.

Mauk, Johnathon. “Location, Location, Location: The Real (E)states of Being, Writing, and Thinking in Composition.” College English 65.4 (2003): 368-88. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2009.

Reynolds, Nedra. Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004. Print.

Sandlin, Jennifer A., Brian D. Schultz, and Jake Burdick, eds. Handbook of Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. Print.

Schmidt, Christopher. “The New Media Writer as Cartographer.” Computers and Composition 28 (2011): 303-314.