Technology
Apple’s new iPad
So on Wednesday, Apple unveiled their much anticipated iPad. Yes, there are a variety of limitations (the name, flash incompatibility, sticking with AT&T’s 3G network, no stylus, limited ability to multitask), but there are so many things about this device that seem right. In many ways, it’s a glorified iPhone, larger and without the ability [...]
Wysocki et al (2004): Writing New Media
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition by Geoffrey Sirc
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In this fine collection, Wysocki, Johnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Sirc provide a chapter or two each arguing about an aspect of new media and composition studies, and then a section offering classroom activities with [...]
Wednesday will be like Christmas
A few weeks ago I blogged about new ereading devices. Since then Plastic Logic has unveiled the QUE reader, which looks pretty cool. I was anticipating a flexible screen since I heard of Plastic Logic a few years ago, but that was a no-go. I’m most excited though, for Apple’s upcoming unveiling on Wednesday. My [...]
Johnson-Eilola (1997): Nostalgic Angels
Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing by Johndan Johnson-Eilola
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
While the examples Johnson-Eilola uses in Nostalgic Angels to discuss hypertext are dated (e.g., the 1990s program HyperCard), his arguments seem to be just as salient today. Throughout the book, Johnson-Eilola complicates notions of hypertext, especial those claims that hypertext are utopian [...]
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 [...]
new reading devices
I’ve been thinking about getting one of the two new reading devices that are coming out shortly. Tomorrow, Plastic Logic unveils its QUE ProReader at CES. From what I’ve read over the last year, this device is larger than most ereaders, built for business documents, and is flexible — that is, the device can be [...]
