About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
stuff white people like
While I was visiting Michigan State’s campus last week, quite a few grad students were talking about the blog Stuff White People Like. When I got back home, I checked it out. It’s an hilarious site that chronicles the behaviors … Continue reading
the dove self esteem fund
Via the amazing Nathan Buck, this feminist YouTube video on the media and beauty industry: I don’t know a lot about Dove’s Self Esteem Fund, but I think this ad is pretty impressive — especially because it is so quick … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Remixing, Visual Literacy, Visual Rhetoric
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notes from the chronicle
Interesting stuff: • I have to laugh at this. To laugh is not very charitable to the instructor. I too would be a bit peeved if the technology I used lost the grades for an exam, or any project. However, … Continue reading
page 123 meme
This has been circulating the blogs: The rules of engagement are as follows: a) Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. b) Find page 123. c) Find the first 5 sentences and read them. d) Post the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, publics, Social Justice
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notes from the interblags: comics!
Oh, public discourse: • Problems debating those who are “irrational”? Debate in a clown suit! • A reason I sometimes stay up too late: someone is wrong on the Internet