Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy
Project 3: Screen Self Portrait
- Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext
- Directory of Class Webtexts (draft/demo)
Final version due 26-Oct (webtext published: post link on blog)
— Composing summary + Reflection due 27-Oct
Week 10
M 10/26 Project Workshop:
- Activity, peer review: webtext Digital Rhetoric
— see Design Guide page - review/discuss: Summary & Reflection components
—plus, create collaborative website (link webtexts)
W 10/26 hybrid work :
- Read & discuss Wieseltier, “Among the Disrupted” (7 Jan 2015) The New York Times
plus watch “What Letter Should We Add to STEM?” (2:42 video)
- Discussion Prompts below
- — First comment: brief post about reading
— Classmate reply: informal response, thoughtful comment or question.
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» Optional Blog Entry (bonus credit)
200 words (minimum), discussing “Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible” by Marilynne Robinson The Nation.com (22-Oct 2015)
F 10/30 view/discuss “Ulmer Tapes” videos
- watch: 2.04 | 2.05 | 2.06
- focus: apparatus theory and paradigm rhetoric
— Experience & “Aesthetic Paradigm”; technology & mediation
- Introduction: Unit 3 Experience Paradigm — Affective & Aesthetic
- optional: 2.07 | 4.08 | 4.09 | 5.04
“Electracy: Writing to Avatar” (2009)
- » due: Blog Entry 3
200 words + media, informal: discuss what is privileged and excluded by forms of knowledge in Belief/Story Paradigm (Unit 1) and Information/Proof Paradigm (Unit 2).
Include media to convey the “mood of thought” evoked for each paradigm (2 minimum, any forms, embedded in post)
— classmate reply optional (bonus participation)
- Optional Exercise (extra credit): Cross Paradigm
- 500 words (minimum); post on your blog (by S 01-Nov)
- objective/experiment Transformation: Belief-Story into Information
–or– Info/Argument into Story
— use content from projects/units 1 and 2, or other ideas
→ looking ahead: Rettberg (2014 eBook), Seeing Ourselves through Technology
(read this weekend / next week)