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Are Shared Discourses Desirable? A Response to Nancy McKoski Patricia Bizzell

The Social Construction of What? Ian Hacking Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book […]

Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge Edited by Edward Barrett Sociomedia continues the assessment of hypertext and hypermedia systems begun in Text, ConText, and HyperText and The Society of Text. It examines the use of integrated multimedia to support social or collaborative research, learning, and instruction in the university, one of the best […]