TY - JOUR
T1 - Writing as extended mind
T2 - Recentering cognition, rethinking tool use
AU - Overstreet, Matthew
N1 - Funding Information:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Recently, a new wave of materialist writing scholarship has sought to trace how technological change is impacting writing processes. This article suggests that such efforts can benefit from viewing writing as act of extended mind. Formulated by philosophers, but rooted in cognitive science, extended mind reconceives cognition as embodied action. Seen through such a lens, writing is spatially and temporally distributed, yet composed of discrete material elements. Tools emerge as more than items of mere use. After discussing what writing as extended mind holds and how it connects with (and challenges) current practice, I reinterpret data from two recent articles in Computers and Composition, showing how this provocative theoretical frame might supplement both writing research and pedagogy.
AB - Recently, a new wave of materialist writing scholarship has sought to trace how technological change is impacting writing processes. This article suggests that such efforts can benefit from viewing writing as act of extended mind. Formulated by philosophers, but rooted in cognitive science, extended mind reconceives cognition as embodied action. Seen through such a lens, writing is spatially and temporally distributed, yet composed of discrete material elements. Tools emerge as more than items of mere use. After discussing what writing as extended mind holds and how it connects with (and challenges) current practice, I reinterpret data from two recent articles in Computers and Composition, showing how this provocative theoretical frame might supplement both writing research and pedagogy.
KW - Activity theory
KW - Digital reading pedagogy
KW - Sociocultural theory
KW - Writing as extended mind
KW - Writing processes
KW - Writing research methods
KW - Writing tools
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123721403&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compcom.2022.102700
DO - 10.1016/j.compcom.2022.102700
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123721403
SN - 8755-4615
VL - 63
JO - Computers and Composition
JF - Computers and Composition
M1 - 102700
ER -