Internet culture

Warnick (2007): Rhetoric Online

Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web by Barbara Warnick
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Warnick’s Rhetoric Online is a helpful contribution to the study of persuasion in political discourse online. Warnick argues persuasively that scholars of rhetoric need to focus on online communication as rhetoric and that the medium affects how [...]

Internet culture, New Media, Technology

notes from the interblags: post RSA edition

Yesterday concluded the RSA Summer Institute, held here at Penn State. Participants from around the country came to discuss rhetoric in either a week-long seminar or a weekend workshop (or for some, both). I was in the Queering Rhetorical Studies workshop, which was a fantastic experience. I walked away with new connections, friends, and colleagues, [...]

Copyright, Internet culture, New Media, Notes from the Interblags, Queer issues and theory, Teaching Composition

on the internet, no one knows you’re not Tony La Russa

EDIT/UPDATE: After reading Collin’s comment, I decided to research further. The lawsuit was settled out of court, but part of the issue was distasteful references to players who had died of heart conditions or driving accidents. Bad taste! I’d sue if I were La Russa too, in this case — but because I’d be serious [...]

Authenticity, Identity and Identification, Internet culture

notes from the interblags: ereading, twitter, plagiarism, potato chips

• Harvard Business: An analysis of Twitter based on gender. Men are more likely to follow other men and more likely to be followed by more people, although there are more women on Twitter than men. Additionally, 90% of the content on Twitter is produced by only 10% of users, and the medium number of [...]

Education, Internet culture, Law, New Media, Notes from the Interblags, Plagiarism

hate and web2.0: tweeting hate

Mark links to this post of tweets celebrating the assassination of Dr. Tiller, who was murdered in his church on Sunday because he provides abortions. The tweets are a bit sickening, I think.
I’ve read plenty of scholarly work on networking technologies that investigates how progressive groups use the Internet for networking and activism, but not [...]

Internet culture, New Media

Twitter rumors: retweeting, misinformation, and amateurs

Today was an interesting experience on Twitter. Somehow, a whole bunch of people latched onto a few one-year-old newspaper articles about the California Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, and interpreted the articles as news that they had overturned Proposition 8. The “news” spread like wildfire (at least from my perspective).
A few hours [...]

Internet culture, New Media

notes from the interblags

It’s been a while since I’ve done a link-dump, but it’s probably time. Most of the stuff I read now gets linked to from my Twitter account.
• Slate’s new women’s website doesn’t seem very feminist according to Feministing—or perhaps downright anti- or post-feminist. UPDATE: Read Anne Friedman’s post at The American Prospect, which asks why [...]

Feminism, Information Literacy, Internet culture, New Media, Notes from the Interblags

amazon.com removes sales ranks from LGBTQ books

In cased you missed it (the Internet seems in an uproar around this), but Amazon.com has removed the sales rankings from many gay and lesbian texts, claiming, as I understand it, that they are adult content. Jezebel has a discussion about this, as well as a list of some of the books that have lost [...]

Internet culture, Queer issues and theory

flutter

This is a funny little commentary on microblogging (via the philosophist):

My favorite line: “At first I was like, there is no ‘I’ in ‘nanoblogging,’ but yeah, there is.”

Internet culture, New Media

different discourses for different folks

Lots of folks are talking about their old high school friends, classmates, and even enemies friending them on Facebook. One of my old high school friends recently friended me, after we hadn’t talked in five years (since our five year class reunion). The other day, while I was away from my computer, he instant messages [...]

Class, Internet culture, New Media