- * reminder: begin “network witness” (group posts “monitoring”)
— share group site/s & begin seeking audience
M 15-Sep » Focus (and discussion): Discourse Communities
Readings from Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs (2004)
- » For discussion/activity, read “Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture” Gurak et al
- “Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project” Anita Blanchard
- “Geography of the Blogosphere: Representing the Culture, Ecology and Community of Weblogs” Nicholas Packwood
- “Personal Publication and Public Attention” Torill Elvira Mortensen
- “Parody Blogging and the Call of the Real” Trish Roberts-Miller
- “Women and Children Last: The Discursive Construction of Weblogs” Herring, Kouper, Scheidt, and Wright
- “Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog” Miller and Shepherd
- “Culture Clash: Journalism and the Communal Ethos of the Blogosphere” Brian Carroll
- “Weblog Journalism: Between Infiltration and Integration” Jason Gallo
- “Imagining the Blogosphere: An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing” Graham Lampa
and “Weblogs and the Public Sphere” Andrew Baoill
and choose 1 from these groups/lists (to discuss in class, groups of A + B + C):
(group A)
(group B)
(group C)
W 17-Sep Rice, “The Making of Ka-knowledge: Digital Aurality” (2006) Computers and Composition 23 (PDF in D2L)
- Focus/Discuss: digital rhetoric, network forms/modes
» Blog Entry due (plus classmate comment due Thurs.)
F 19-Sep Brown, “Composition in the Dromosphere” (2012) Computers and Composition 29.1 (PDF in D2L)
- Focus/Discuss: network conditions (“real-time”) & experience; multimodal composing
— looking ahead: project 1
» Section 028
» Section 034
» Notes/Quotes Doc (requires Drive sign-in with Identikey)
» Quotes/Notes Doc (requires Drive sign-in with Identikey)
» Dromosphere:
TweetPing
Google Trends
Bonus track: Girl Talk — Feed the Animals (stream full album with samples identified)