Category Archives: New Media

flutter

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Michael

This is a funny little commentary on microblogging (via the philosophist): My favorite line: “At first I was like, there is no ‘I’ in ‘nanoblogging,’ but yeah, there is.”

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different discourses for different folks

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Michael

Lots of folks are talking about their old high school friends, classmates, and even enemies friending them on Facebook. One of my old high school friends recently friended me, after we hadn’t talked in five years (since our five year … Continue reading →

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the ethics of anonymity

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Michael

via The Philosophist, here’s an Huffington Post column about an Alaska state legislator revealing the previously anonymous identity of “Alaska Muckraker,” the Alaskan blogger who wrote about Sarah Palin once she was nominated for vice president. The column brings up … Continue reading →

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defining “new media”

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Michael

I’m reading Wyoscki et al’s Writing New Media, and Anne Wysocki offers a definition of “new media texts” that I find quite interesting: I think we should call “new media texts” those that have been made by composers who are … Continue reading →

Posted in English 584 Postcritical Perspectives in Literacy Studies (Spring 2009), New Media | 7 Comments

Notes on IST Graduate Symposium Microblogging Panel

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Michael

The 2009 IST Graduate Symposium was yesterday and today, and I completely forgot about it, even after my friend Tom suggested it earlier this week and I noticed that some State College folks I follow on Twitter were talking about … Continue reading →

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