Sam Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater College with a disciplinary focus on digital and professional writing and pedagogy. His research interests are digital/multimodal composition, research methods, and pedagogy, and 19th and 20th century American/African-American literary and rhetorical traditions. With a historical lens, Hamilton examines the pedagogical connections between distinct movements of self-education in the United States, and he considers potential applications of past practices within contemporary contexts.

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Works Cited, Consulted, and Considered: Refreshing Self-Reliance

by Samuel Hamilton

published December 2016 (updated March 2018)

 

 

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Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2012. Print.

Channing, William Ellery. Self-Culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September 1838. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1839. Print.

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Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method. New York: Verso, 1975. Print.

Graff, Harvey J. The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987. Print.

Harten, Emily. “Finding Perspective at the Zoo.” Essay written for Seminar in Composition, University of Pittsburgh, 2013. Print.

Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson. New York: Harper Collins, 1962. Print.

Holton, Doug. “The Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants Distinction is Dead, Or At Least Dying.” EdTechDev. Wordpress, 19 Mar. 2010. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. <http://edtechdev.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/the-digital-natives-digital-immigrants-distinction-is-dead-or-at-least-dying/>.

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James, William. Pragmatism. Amherst, New York: Prometheus, 1991. Print.

Jones, Chris and Binhui Shao. “The Net Generation and Digital Natives: Implications for Higher Education: A Literature Review Commissioned by the Higher Education Academy.” The Open University. 26 June 2011. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. <http://oro.open.ac.uk/30014/>.

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McKenzie, Jamie. “Digital Nativism, Digital Delusions, and Digital Deprivation.” From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal. 17.2 (November 2007): n. pag. Web. 19 Apr. 2014. <http://www.fno.org/nov07/nativism.html>.

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Prensky, Marc. “Digital Native, Digital Immigrants.” On the Horizon. 9.5 (October 2001): n. pag. Web.  19 Apr. 2014. <http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf>.

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Spiro, Lisa. “Getting Started in the Digital Humanities.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities: Exploring the Digital Humanities. 14 October 2011. Web. 2 June. 2016. <https://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/getting-started-in-the-digital-humanities>.

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