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Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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Topic projects for spring 2009
ENGL 3179/5179 Elements of Electronic RhetoricA project-based course in digital- and new media
Transliteracy
A look at really really new media. “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.” Thomas, Joseph, et al.
Persuasive Technology
How Facebook is designed to persuade you to update your profile and post to walls. How your car is designed to persuade you to slow down. How your cellphone is designed to persuade you to text.
Mobile Writing and Learning
What can you write in 160 characters while in motion? A poem? a short story? a vow? a warning? an oath? How can you learn via Twitter, IM, sms, and cell phone pics?
Digital- and New-Media Poetics
Writers who work in digital and new media: web sites, blogs, sound, image, and video files, CD-ROMs, txts, IMs. who publish by demand. who offer up their work for public peer editing. who use the screen as paper and links as narrative. who abandon narrative and linearity and the ideologies they embody to create poetry as image. who work the social network. who use letter and word as design. who engage and engage in global experiments in writing.
Thurs 1 May
- Final work day for SocialNetworkingProject. Prepare a master page for your work that others (in this class, elsewhere) can use. Link to sub- and related pages. You can use the Study 2008 page your group has used as the master. See TwitterStudy2008 for an example.
- As before, presentations are informal, and open for discussion and questions.
- Walk through description and analysis: patterns, search model - what you found, to provide a ground for your interpretation. Lead to
- Interpretation, or multiple interpretations, drawing on search model and your evidence.
Tues 5 May
SocialNetworkingProject- RhetoricalSituationsInMySpace presentation
- evals
Thurs 7 May
- Twitter Group Presentation
- Facebook Presentation
Participants
TammiHartung | AbiTarutis | NicholasOmann | JustinWerstlein | JoHanna | MonayaMMaGaurn | MichelleBroadrick | ShawnRakowski | HelenHansen | BenSwarts | ZachOlson | ErikLundin | BaileyOberschmid | JustinGagola| MorganMC | PastParticipants Useful pages: FormattingRules, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch.  This site is running on version n/a (see WikkaReleaseNotes). Visit the WikkaWiki. |
