On divides and interfaces: Access, class, and computers

In this article, I reconstruct the discussion of access within the field of computers and writing, articulate a notion of class that might be useful for work in the field, and revisit the issue of the digital divide. This reconstruction of access, class, and divides is linked by a heuristic framed by a rhetoric of the everyday that might guide research and intervention strategies. A rhetoric of the everyday makes visible the relationships between access and class, between the material and the rhetorical, and between and among other issues of identity. These relationships constitute a set of interfaces that work in computers and writing must navigate. To navigate them, we need to drill deep into intersections between materiality and activity, or into the infrastructure of inequality.