Reading: Compose, Design, Advocate -- Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 17-55) (2007) by Anne F. Wysocki & Dennis A. Lynch ( Read more... )

Reading: "Copyright and Fair Use" (1999), by Megan J. Forness ( Read more... )

Reading: "The Rhetorical Situation" (1968) by Lloyd F. Bitzer

In this piece, Bitzer seeks to define what he sees as a gap in the study of rhetoric, a concept he terms a rhetorical situation. So far as I can see, such a situation differs from the ancient rhetorical concept of context in only one way: that Bitzer's situation is not merely the " ( Read more... )

I don't know if anyone's seen this yet or not, but someone I know linked to it on facebook, I thought it was pretty digitally... interesting. Yeah. Interesting.

Neave Strobe

Actually, all of the links across the top are pretty nifty in one way or another. The anaglyph one was definitely worth several minutes of quality procrastination.

Reading: "Literacy and Computer Literacy: Analyzing the NRC's Being Fluent with Information Technology" by Kate Williams ( Read more... )

Reading: "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" and "Part II: Do They Really Think Differently?", by Marc Prensky (both 2001 ( Read more... )

Reading: From Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy (2006), "Chapter 8: (Cyber)Conspiracy Theories? African-American Students in the Computerized Writing Environment" (pp. 153-164) by Samantha Blackmon ( Read more... )

Readings: Home Broadband Adoption: Sumary of Findings
FCC Strategic Goals -- BroadbandThe first of these sites summarizes the results of a 2009 survey of a cross-section of the American public regarding their use, or non-use, of Internet access service in their homes. It also compares the results to findings from similar previous surveys. It seems ( Read more... )

REVISED; THIS FINAL VERSION POSTED at 9:25 PM, EDT on 21 SEPTEMBER, 2010

In this post, I will be considering an online Flash cartoon, namely "A Jorb Well Done" from the Homestar Runner website. In this cartoon, the character Coach Z gets lessons from several other characters on the subject of how to pronounce the word "job", since he can’t seem to ( Read more... )

Reading: The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan (1967 ( Read more... )