IUPUC faculty member Katherine Wills, Ph.D., published an article in the Spring 2010 edition of the Computers and Composition Online.

Wills’ article, “Still Paying Attention Ten Years Later: A Bakhtinian Reading of the National Information Infrastructure Initiative Agenda for Action,” uses a Bakhtinian theoretical frame to analyze the public policy document The National Information Infrastructure Initiative Agenda for Action.

Wills argues for the continued need to pay attention to public policy such as the Agenda and, more recently, the Spellings Report. Such documents act on the public imagination and influence material conditions in education and perceptions about education in public spheres.

The article asks specialists in the area of computers and composition to consider the implications of public policy on their work and critical technological literacy as they near the close of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Computers and Composition Online is the refereed online companion journal to Computers and Composition: An International Journal, now in its 26th year.

The goal of the journal is to be a significant online resource for scholar-teachers interested in the impact of new and emerging media upon the teaching of language and literacy in both virtual and face-to-face forums.

Wills is an assistant professor of English for the IUPUC Division of Liberal Arts.