Internet culture
Bruns (2008): Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage by Axel Bruns My rating: 3 of 5 stars Bruns’s Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond is a solid argument about how the Internet is changing the way we produce content. Bruns explains that content creation online “operate[s:] along lines which are fluid, flexible, heterarchical, [...]
Blackbird Pie
Okay, this tool is pretty cool. If you post screen captures of tweets, or links to tweets in your blog, you should check out Blackbird Pie. Example, from an August 5 tweet by my friend Eric (who mentions this tool, but I finally got around to reading it after marking it as a favorite): .bbpBox20395120770 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
