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This group of critical, historical, and technical assessments of digital discourse and culture is assembled to commemorate the creation of Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) a decade ago. Organized in the College of Arts and Sciences, two college faculty members-Len Hatfield in the Department of English and Timothy W. Luke in the Department of Political Science-began operating the CDDC with Jeremy Hunsinger, who later pursued and completed his Doctorate in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) program. Hatfield was a co-founder of the Department of English’s Center for Applied Technology in the Humanities (CATH), and Luke was the author of a 1994 white paper for the College of Arts and Sciences calling for the creation of a new entity, namely, “Cyberschool,” at Virginia Tech to design, manage, organize, and then teach wholly online undergraduate and graduate courses by 1995.
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Luke, T.W., Hunsinger, J. (2012). Introduction. In: Luke, T.W., Hunsinger, J. (eds) Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play. Transdisciplinary Studies, vol 4. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-728-8_1
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