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: Technology
democratic hopes vs technological actualities
This video is a great response to idealized views that the Internet will bring about democracy: h/t the blogora
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Poster (2006): Information Please
Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines by Mark Poster My rating: 4 of 5 stars In Information Please, Mark Poster asks how information works differently when it is mediated through digital machines, arguing that much … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Identity and Identification, Social, Technology
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My Blackberry Is Not Working
Thank you Sara for sending me this great BBC skit:
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Kids investigating “ancient” technologies
via Dennis Jerz, here’s a great video of French youngsters exploring “ancient” devices (like the GameBoy and floppy disks). Like Dennis, I was delighted by the occurrence at roughly 2:40.
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