The descent of internet publications: A review of online literacy journals

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More perplexing still is Grammatron (http://www.grammatron.com/about.html), a "public domain narrative environment" developed by virtual artist Mark Amerika in conjunction with the Brown University Graduate Creative Writing Program and the National Science Foundation's Graphics and Visualization Center. This site's explanatory liner notes sound impressive, but the actual execution may leave you scratching your head. It's like, urn, conceptual performance art, kind of, you know? Far more substantial is Kairos (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/index.html), an excellent, sharply crafted, peer-reviewed site for "teachers of writing in webbed environments" (i.e., hypertexts) offering features, news, reviews, and interactive linkages. Article titles link to abstracts with links to additional information about the author, and a choice of a published or active version of the full text. Features are highly hypertextual in organization. This makes for exciting reading, but also points up the limitations of some experimental textual forms. Other specialized literacy e-journal sites cover such topics as teaching English as a second language (The Internet TESL Journal, http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/), foreign language education and technology (Language Learning and Technology, http:/Alt.msu.edu/), adult literacy (Literacy Online, http://www.literacyonline.org/), media study (Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, http.7/www.ascusc. org/jcmc/), electronic publishing (The Journal of Electronic Publishing, http:// www.press.umich.edu/jep/JEPsubject.html; The Book and the Computer, http:// www.honco.net/), and more.