Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet

摘要

With the increasing presence of digital writing spaces, writers can now reach an increasingly diverse, global audience. Yet, the increase in the number of spaces is both an affordance and challenge in communication as identities, cultures, and communicative practices often differ. Thinking Globally, Composing Locally, a collection edited by Rich Rice and Kirk St. Amant, highlights audience diversity as advantage/difficulty with a greater focus on identifying "friction points" that encumber cross-cultural communication. Rice and St. Amant believe identifying these points offers a better understanding of current global writing contexts by furthering the dimensions of audience and purpose within the rhetorical triangle, thus creating practical applications to improve online writing approaches.