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Elements of Electronic Rhetoric

ENGL 3179/5179

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Required Texts for Spring 2009

Stoner, Mark, and Sally Perkins. Making Sense of Messages. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. Amazon

Fogg, B.J. Persuasive Technology. SF: Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. Amazon

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Morgan's Notes for 22 Jan

WhatIsERhetoric
SeeingAsACritic
WhatMakesThisRhetorical
OverviewOfMethod - from Stoner and Perkins, chap 3
AdviceOnMethod - compiled by AspenEasterling

Emily Cummins

for Thurs 29 Jan

Due by dawn, 29 Jan.

Chapter 4: Description
http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/
Write a description of thebillblog and its context in 600 - 750 words or so, concluding with a characterization of the messages. Confine yourself to first page displayed, probably the 10 latest posts. Use the Planned Survey approach to guide your observations (p 48). Characterize the kinds of posts made. You'll need to address other features of the blog, as well. You may will need to do some research to discover the context, and to find out about Bill.

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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