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?
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Category Archives: Internet culture
McCain wants blogs to censor their comments…
…or face a huge fine. Think Progress is reporting that McCain is sponsoring a bill that stipulates: Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up … Continue reading
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bush and townhall forums (ha!)
The Daily Show is usually a good critique of Orwellian rhetoric from the Bush administration. A friend of mine sent me this YouTube Video from The Daily Show about Bush’s so-called “town-hall forums.” Hilarious:
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on an upcoming philosophy paper
I have all my homework done for this quarter except a 12-15 page paper due Thursday. This is exciting – I’ve never had an easier finals week. But it’s a little stressful because I want this paper to be good. … Continue reading
Second Life to get news reporting
Last spring at the New Research Summit at the University of Oregon, an instructor discussed his success with holding a classroom online in the virtual reality game of Second Life. I just read this BBC story about Reuters starting a … Continue reading