About Michael J. Faris
Assistant Professor of English with research areas in digital literacy, privacy and social media, and queering rhetorics.
This blog serves as a place to think through things, record thoughts, share interesting stuff, and hold conversations. Welcome!
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- Elizeth on Bersani (2010): Is the Rectum a Grave?
- Joe Schicke on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Teaching/Learning in Progress: Thinking about the “Backchannel” – Liz Ahl on Robert Brooke on ‘underlife’
- Ariane on the idea of a writing center
- Editorial Pedagogy, pt. 1: A Professional Philosophy - Hybrid Pedagogy on Miller’s “Genre as Social Action”
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Category Archives: Distributed Knowledge
connected learning
I am listening to Will Richardson’s presentation on connected learning (also available here). One of his most salient points for me was on making connections and pattern recognition. He says (I tried to transcribe this accurately): […]recognizing patterns is huge.[…] … Continue reading
the complications of distributed knowledge and how one views others
Fall quarter I became obsessed with the idea of distributed knowledge, the idea that we no longer just have knowledge in our heads, but also what is constantly or near-constantly at our hands (on the internet, via the cell phone, … Continue reading
distributed knowledge while instant messaging
My friend Keith and I were just talking at Interzone, and he mentioned my previous post on distributed knowledge, and he brought up how when we use instant message clients (e.g., AIM), when someone else mentions something that we don’t … Continue reading
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