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Persuasive Technology: i.TV

Hugh Laurie and an iPhone app encouraging viewers to watch a Christmas episode of House, review it, and share their review. (The episode was not one of their best; it was predictable but moved the series narrative forward. Questions? Read Charles Dickens.)

Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

Required Texts fpr Spring 2009

Announcements

Thurs 15 Jan

• CourseStatement
• Introductions
• Set up your wikiname page
• page links to exercises
• 250 word intro
• The critical stance and a balcony view

deadlines for Thurs 22 Jan

• Stoner and Perkins, chaps 1 - 3
• Stoner and Perkins, chap 2: A Critical Stance, pp 15 -18. Three versions and your notes and reflections. Due Tues, 20 Jan, midnight.
• Stoner and Perkins, chap 3: Exercise 1 on pp 43 - 44. Due Weds, 21 Jan, midnight.
• 300 Words In Print Part 2: Due at class, Thurs 22 Jan.

Participants

MorganMC | PastParticipants Topic projects for spring 2009 ENGL 3179/5179 Elements of Electronic Rhetoric A project-based course in digital and new media for more information: mmorgan@bemidjistate.edu Digital- and New-Media Poetics "A new medium involves both a new practice and a new rhetoric ..." - John Slatin, 1991. A new understanding of efficacy and affordances. Writing in digital and new media: web sites, blogs, wikis, sound, images, video files, CD-ROMs, the adapted forms of txt and IM, and the hybrid of digital and paper technologies. the writer at work in a social network. work in progress offered for public editing. engaging in local and global experiments in writing. Sophie. the screen as paper and links as narrative. abandoning the ideologies of narrative and linearity for poetry and text as image. the letter and word as design. 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? 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. Toys. 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.” Transliteracy: Crossing Divides. Thomas, Joseph, et al. Some examples http://proboscis.org.uk/ Artists' Collective engaged in digital mapping of the environment among other projects. Working with and in digital- and paper-publishing hybrids. http://wordle.net/ Text image creator. http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/36669/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit http://www.wefeelfine.org/ Weblog text scraper http://twittervision.com/ Twitter postings in real time http://www.lkozma.net/wpv/index.html Wikipedia edits in real time Visual exhibits http://lohanfacial.ytmnd.com/ - Lindsay Lohen doesn't change facial expressions (sound). A video composition making an argument about celebrity and identity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVqIKbouY8 DVNO video (sound) Lyric becomes logo becomes landscape. When words become objects. New canon: from http://collection.eliterature.org/ http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/pullinger_babel__inanimate_alice_episode_1_china/index.html http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/kendall__faith/index.htm http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/rider__myball/index.html Useful pages: FormattingRules, WikkaDocumentation, OrphanedPages, WantedPages, TextSearch. This site is running on version n/a (see WikkaReleaseNotes). Visit the WikkaWiki.

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