Obsolescence in/of Digital Writing Studies

Madden, Shannon

doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2014.07.003

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“…While research in the latter field assumes a widespread familiarity with word-processing and the supersession of handwriting with keyboarding skills, it also acknowledges that not all students are equally comfortable composing on a computer. Socioeconomic inequities may play a role in this (Madden 2014).…”

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What Can Screen Capture Reveal About Students’ Use of Software Tools When Undertaking a Paraphrasing Task?

Bailey

Withers

2018

JAW

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Previous classroom observations, and examination of students' written drafts, had suggested that when summarising or paraphrasing source texts, some of our students were using software tools (for example the copy-paste function and synonym lookup) in possibly unhelpful ways. To test these impressions we used screen capture software to record 20 university students paraphrasing a short text using the word-processing package on a networked PC, and analysed how they utilised software to fulfil the task. Participants displayed variable proficiency in using word-processing tools, and very few accessed external sites. The most frequently enlisted tool was the synonym finder. Some of the better writers (assessed in terms of their paraphrase quality) availed themselves little of software aids. We discuss how teachers of academic writing could help students make more efficient and judicious use of commonly available tools, and suggest further uses of screen capture in teaching and researching academic writing.

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confidence: 99%

What Can Screen Capture Reveal About Students’ Use of Software Tools When Undertaking a Paraphrasing Task?

Bailey

Withers

2018

JAW

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“…In addition to waste generation, it was argued that the excessive use and loss of natural resources, environmental damage, pollution, and related damage to health have also been exacerbated by planned obsolescence (Maycroft, 2009;Guiltinan, 2009;Valant, 2016;Echegaray, 2016, Madden, 2014, Wieser, 2016.…”

Section: The Relation Between Planned Obsolescence and Environmental ...mentioning

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Planned Obsolescence: A Hidden Threat to Environmental Security and the Recent Eu Policy

VERAL¹

2023

Sayıştay Dergisi

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Through the fast-paced global economy, our planet witnesses worsening records on global warming, ecological deterioration, and biodiversity losses each year. While ‘over’ or even ‘hyper’ consumption is experienced in various, especially in the developed parts of the world, resources are being depleted to meet infinite desires rather than basic needs. The growth in population and consumption is expected to further deplete natural resources and aggravate excessive waste generation. Behind the scenes, as one of the triggering strategies of this excessive and continuous consumption, planned obsolescence, which has been widely employed since the 1929 Great Depression, remains a prevalent strategy in practice. With the aim to draw attention to this hidden and well-established strategy, this study examines the planned obsolescence issue and its practices, seeks to answer why planned obsolescence poses a threat to environmental security, whilst evaluates the effectiveness of the recent EU policies and actions to tackle this issue.

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“…The regular launch of the popular iPhones with new features serves as an excellent example here. As described by Madden (2014), in September 2012, Apple released the iPhone 5 with its marketing emphasized on its lightness and thinness as compared to the earlier version. It was a time when lightness and thinness signified a more advanced technology toward ease of portability and technological miniaturization was in trend.…”

Section: Planned and Premature Obsolescencementioning

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“…It was a time when lightness and thinness signified a more advanced technology toward ease of portability and technological miniaturization was in trend. Capitalizing on this association, a lighter and slimmer iPhone 5 was marketed with the novel design while creating additional waste volume by obsolescing the earlier Apple accessories (Madden 2014). In fact, Rodriguez et al (2015) argue that iPhone acts as an outstanding instance of durable goods and consumer electronics that are being manufactured and designed with planned obsolescence in mind.…”

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Understanding consumers’ perspectives of electronic waste in an emerging economy: a case study of New Delhi, India

Borthakur

Singh

2022

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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Obsolete electronics or E-waste has observed significant escalation in the recent years. Young adults, in particular, are one of the largest consumers of electronic equipments in the contemporary world, although research on their perceptions, awareness and disposal behavior of E-waste has been far and few in between. Considering the growth trajectory of E-waste in the emerging economies, a study has been carried out in the capital city of India, New Delhi with 1039 respondents in the age group of 18-22. Contemplating its aggressive generation, obsolete mobile phone was considered as a representative of E-waste. Both purchase and disposal behaviors of mobile phones were evaluated through the lens of theoretical frameworks such as conspicuous consumption and throwaway society. The concepts of planned and premature obsolescence were also explored. A structured questionnaire survey was carried out through a respondent driven snowball sampling method. We observed that the functional need is the foremost consideration while deciding to purchase a new mobile phone within our study sample. Over 49% of our respondents change their mobile phones between 1 and 3 years. This corresponds to the fact that mobile phones are discarded very much within their actual functional lifespan. Overall, it could be concluded that the major attributes of conspicuous consumption and a throwaway society are still not dominant in our study sample. The experiences of India's E-waste have the potential to provide important insights for policy formulation and sustainable management particularly in other emerging economies and developing countries.

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Obsolescence in/of Digital Writing Studies

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

What Can Screen Capture Reveal About Students’ Use of Software Tools When Undertaking a Paraphrasing Task?

What Can Screen Capture Reveal About Students’ Use of Software Tools When Undertaking a Paraphrasing Task?

Planned Obsolescence: A Hidden Threat to Environmental Security and the Recent Eu Policy

Understanding consumers’ perspectives of electronic waste in an emerging economy: a case study of New Delhi, India

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