In a message on the techrhet listserv late last month, CCC Online guest editor Jenn Fishman posted a CFP for a special issue devoted to performance. As it happens,
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This has been sitting here as a draft for a month now and, in light of the fact that my students in Web writing and I were discussing Andrew Sullivan’s ideas on blogging last week, I’m going to just post it unfinished. It’s a starting point, something I can come back and revisit. I’m going [...] As I surfed the Web on Christmas day (having nothing better to do than Web surf by a roaring fire while watching my cat play with the new toys from her stocking), I came across this editorial about James Cameron’s blockbuster, Avatar, by Adam Cohen in that day’s New York Times online and I tweeted [...] A new year, time for a little reflection on this whole blogging thing I started back in the summer, fresh off the high of Computers and Writing and the flush of technophilia I always feel during and immediately following that conference. Much like the students in my Web writing course, it’s apparent that blogging is [...] Since we’ve been playing around with Twitter in my Writing for the Web class, and since I’ve been thinking about the poetics/rhetorics of streaming torrents of words, ideas half-formed, the cumulative piling-on of new ideas and meanings in remixes and retweets, I want to think more about what our microblogging, status-updating, twitterpating will produce in [...] Today my Writing for the Web students and I will be discussing McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message” and a chapter from Amy Devitt’s A Theory of Genre, two texts that provide important theoretical grounding for this course. Both McLuhan and Devitt warn us that medium and genre can constrain and limit us if we [...] This is an article that piques my interest. I have been reading about the topic of sentiment analysis for a while now, but since I’ve been thinking about the new compositional and rhetorical practices fostered by the Web with such things as RSS feeds and Twitter, I think there’s important work to be done on [...] Okay, finally, as promised, more stuff on the remixing, revision, re-composition, and reconstitution issues that have been on my mind of late… Kate Armstrong’s “Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics,” originally published in a special issue of of The Capilano Review devoted to writing and technology, is available as part of a fascinating online reiteration/remix of that issue by Web artist and writer J.R. Carpenter. In her essay, Armstrong proposes a new literary art that might arise from [...] |
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