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Category Archives: technology
Visual Rhetoric InDesign Project
I’m teaching an undergraduate course in Visual Rhetoric for the first time at USF this semester. Our first few projects involved analysis and manipulation in photoshop. Our fourth project requires students to work in groups of 4 to design a … Continue reading
Posted in teaching, technology, visual-rhetoric
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Penny Arcade, Technology, and My Life
The following appeared on Penny Arcade today. Yup. It is always dangerous to make assumptions about people’s basic philosophies, and those assumptions tend to (quite conveniently) track with the way you, yourself see the world, so maybe I should limit … Continue reading
Posted in ong, penny-arcade, technology
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Lessig Quotes Huxley
Lawrence Lessig quotes Huxley (1927) in his OpenVideoAlliance webside chat: “In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, digital-citizenship, fair-use, lessig, teaching, technology
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Toward Kair-erotically Thinking Techno-Determinism
I spent the morning today doing some reading/writing on my Computers and Writing presentation, which will deal explicitly with how social media played a role in diagnosing and dealing with my daughter’s cancer. One article that I read today was … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, computers-and-writing, corder, derrida, digital-citizenship, digital-media, ethics, internet, levinas, mcluhan, network, ong, posthuman, rhetoric, technology, web2.0
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Steven Johnson Strikes Again
I’ll take a quick second to point to an extremely important article by Steven Johnson. Why is it so important? Because in the digital/intellectual property conversations, in which so much debate over control is at stake, attention is rarely paid … Continue reading
Posted in ip, stevenjohnson, technology
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This is Much Better than a Flying Car
Remember Geordi Laforge from Star Trek? Well there’s an article in the Guardian.uk on a device that translates impulses on the tongue into visual data, effectively allowing blind people to see. Seriously, sometimes science rocks.
Posted in cool, cyborg, posthuman, technology
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Fun with Photoshop
Just in case you didn’t know, apparently multiculturalism hasn’t completed its world tour. This story from /. today: Polish Microsoft add changes a black guy to a white guy but neglects to edit his hand. The official site has gone … Continue reading
Posted in /., commercial, photoshop, technology
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Help Support Net Neutrality
I posted this to Facebook yesterday, and a few people have passed it on. Time Warner, a large ISP, is making a serious political and legal effort to counter net neutrality. I am presuming they are attempting this early in … Continue reading
Posted in internet, net-neutrality, politics, rhetoric, technology
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I never thought I would say this, but…
I actually find myself agreeing with Andrew Keen. Today Keen responded to Patricia Cohen’s NYTimes article on how the pending economic crisis will affect the humanities. Keen concludes: What I do know for sure, however, is that academic humanists — … Continue reading
Productive Mess Hits the Airwaves
Here’s some shameless self-promotion: the new issue of Kairos includes my article with Nathaniel Rivers and Ryan Weber “Productive Mess: First-Year Composition Takes the University’s Agonism Online.” The article has two main arguments: first, it discusses how to better integrate … Continue reading
Posted in digital-citizenship, education, kairos, rhetoric, teaching, technology, theory-in-practice, victory-is-mine, web2.0, writing-tech
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