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Adrianne Wadewitz received her PhD in 2011 from Indiana University and specializes in the digital humanities, 18th-century literature, and children's literature. She is interested in the ways in which sensibility was taught to children in the 18th century and what kinds of language were used. She is also an expert Wikipedia editor and helped develop the Wikipedia Education Program and has worked tirelessly in the past few years to raise awareness of and right the gender gap on the site.
Adrianne has a taught a wide variety of courses, from introductions to science fiction to explorations of virtual worlds to surveys of children's literature.
Supervisors: Nicholas Williams
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The Lion and the Unicorn, Jan 1, 2009
Talks by Adrianne Wadewitz
One of the questions at the core of Wikipedia is: how can people write together most effectively?... more One of the questions at the core of Wikipedia is: how can people write together most effectively? Since the nineteenth century, the vision of the "author" in Western culture has been that of an individual toiling away (perhaps in a garret). However, this image has recently been challenged by literary and pedagogical theorists. We have come to realize that texts do not have one meaning and that texts have more than one author. In this paper, through evidence gathered from interviews with editors on the English Wikipedia and wiki-based writing assignments conducted with a composition class, I will attempt to describe collaborative authorship on wikis.
Teaching Documents by Adrianne Wadewitz
The Lion and the Unicorn, Jan 1, 2009
One of the questions at the core of Wikipedia is: how can people write together most effectively?... more One of the questions at the core of Wikipedia is: how can people write together most effectively? Since the nineteenth century, the vision of the "author" in Western culture has been that of an individual toiling away (perhaps in a garret). However, this image has recently been challenged by literary and pedagogical theorists. We have come to realize that texts do not have one meaning and that texts have more than one author. In this paper, through evidence gathered from interviews with editors on the English Wikipedia and wiki-based writing assignments conducted with a composition class, I will attempt to describe collaborative authorship on wikis.