About Michael J. Faris
I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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- Michael on Cynthia Nixon: "It’s a Choice"
- Hillary on Cynthia Nixon: "It’s a Choice"
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- yossale on Latour (1993): We Have Never Been Modern
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- No matter what typos I make, the difference between awhile and a while is important 14 hrs ago
- Designing Women, Roseanne, Murphy Brown, and Golden Girls: the shows that raised my feminist consciousness in the early 90s 14 hrs ago
- I'm excited for tomorrow to see the Vagina Monologues. Need some good feminism in my life (especially in this town) 15 hrs ago
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Category Archives: Wikipedia
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Internet culture, New Media, Wikipedia
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banning wikipedia: irresponsible
David Perry has an editorial up on Science Progress in which he argues that it’s irresponsible to ban Wikipedia at a school: And this is why digital literacy is so crucial for educational institutions: we do a fundamental disservice to … Continue reading
Posted in Information Literacy, Internet culture, Literacy, New Media, Wikipedia
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notes from the interblags: the twitter and wiki edition
• Claire sent me this New York Times Article on Twitter, a social networking tool I just started using a few weeks ago. An excerpt from the article: What is different about “quick blogging†tools like Twitter (which imposes a … Continue reading
Citizendium!
via Blogora, an article about a new wiki to rival Wikipedia (perhaps rival isn’t the right term, but the site hopes to have more accuracy and accountability than Wikipedia). An early version of Citizendium is up.
Posted in Internet culture, Uncategorized, Wikipedia
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bias and wikis and poedias
Jim at Blogora points readers to Conservapedia, a conservative alternative to Wikipedia. Their main page notes: Conservapedia has over 3,400 educational, clean and concise entries on historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics, as well as more than 350 lectures and … Continue reading
Posted in Internet culture, Uncategorized, Wikipedia
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