Category Archives: New Media

Bruns (2008): Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Michael

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 →

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Wysocki et al (2004): Writing New Media

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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Warnick (2007): Rhetoric Online

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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notes from the interblags: post RSA edition

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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more auto-tuning the news: smoking lettuce

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Michael

I’ve post autotune the news before, but I love it so much, here’s another episode. My favorite part is the questioning of American Exceptionalism toward the beginning (exceptional fast food!): h/t Oregon Robot for this video.

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