Opening Spaces: Writing Technologies and Critical Research Practices Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
1	Introducing Critical Research Practices	1
	The Complexity of Positionality in Methodology	2
	Our Methodology	9
2	Positions and Perimeters: A Hypertextual Glossary	15
	Critical	16
	Practices	21
	Praxis	25
	Rhetorical Situatedness	27
	Political and Ethical Action	39
	Postmodern	40
3	Articulating Methodology as Praxis	45
	Traditionalist Depictions of Process: Positivist to Naturalist	49
	Socialized Method to Problematized Method	54
	Feminist Depictions of Process: Essentialist and Materialist	58
	Problematizing Methods: Moving Into Critical Praxis	64
	A Critical Practices Depiction of Process	67
	A Negative Example From CMC Research in Organizational Communication	70
	Research Reports and the Traces of Positive Examples of Critical Praxis	71
4	Postmodern Mapping and Methodological Interfaces	77
	Methodology: Postmodern Mapping	78
	Research Scene Maps	81
	Methodological Frame Maps	90
	Design Notes	96
5	The Politics and Ethics of Studying Writing With Computers	101
	Critical Contextualization and the Configuration of Politics, Ethics, and Rhetoric	102
	The Aims of Critical Research	109
	How Politics and Ethics Surface in the Study of Computers and Writing	128
6	The Emergence of Research: A Convergence of Personal, Political, Professional	143
	Description of the Fabric	145
	The Home Page Project	148
	Teaching Projects/Teacher Projects	150
	Gender and the Web	156
	Disciplinary Politics and Community Building	156
7	Enacting Critical Research Practices	163
	Exposing Tensions in our Research Practices	164
	Summary: Use Various Contrastive Tactics to Clarify These Tensions	184
	Conclusion: Opening Critical Spaces	185
	References	189
	Author Index	205
	Subject Index	209
	About the Authors	215