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Paradigm Rhetoric

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 07-Dec (Mon­day night)
 
Final assign­ment: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (due 12/12)

 
» Anony­mous Sur­vey / Feed­back Form

 
Week 16

M 12/07   Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and insights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     

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    » look­ing ahead: com­plet­ing revi­sion of project 2 for port­fo­lio (optional)

 
 
W 12/09   hybrid activ­ity   Blog Entry

  • 200 words (infor­mal dis­cus­sion) + media (any form); due 3pm on your blog
    → see prompts below (choose 1)
     
  • optional par­tic­i­pa­tion: reply to classmate’s entry 

 

    → prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day:
    review syl­labus for course goals (and “Inter­est Inven­tory” memo?) + all course work + com­pile links (and screencaps?)

 

F 12/11   Last Class — Salutations!

  • Dis­cuss: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (Exer­cise 5)
     
    → tuto­r­ial: con­vert­ing Word­Press site to sta­tic port­fo­lio (optional)
     

 
» optional: revised project + revis­ing memo/summary

    Revi­sion Memo (2−3 para­graphs): iden­tify spe­cific changes and com­pos­ing strate­gies, as well as how improv­ing the effectiveness/outcomes toward the par­tic­u­lar objec­tives — and any insights or self-assessment consequently.
    → post memo file in D2L 

 
» Due (S 12/12): Port­fo­lio Reflection
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 

 
 




 
 

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Screen Self Portrait

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 07-Dec (Mon­day night)

 
Week 15

M 11/30   Work­shop: Project 3

  • focus: Screen­Self­Por­trait intro & overview (objec­tives & method)
    — aesthetic-affective par­a­digm, medi­ated expe­ri­ence, Electracy
     
  • activ­ity: expe­ri­ence avatars & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing with media ready­made and custom
    — “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling (Blog entry 5)
     
  • look­ing ahead: sketch/map (out­line) project…
    — begin com­pil­ing & cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for composing
    → con­sider web­site to use for part 1: Wix​.com, Wee​bly​.com, Word­Press pages
    (oth­ers? Jimdo? Moon­fruit?)

 
 




 
 

W 12/02   Work­shop: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, media edit­ing, expres­sive pages

  • focus: using media ready­made (sam­pled), edited, created
    → prepa­ra­tion = have com­piled, con­sider uses (sketch/map), begin editing/authoring
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & assis­tance with key com­pos­ing techniques: 

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  • discuss/review: select­ing site for composing
     
    → past stu­dents’ projects, exam­ples of sev­eral sites
  • look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing media; begin cre­at­ing site 

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» Anony­mous Sur­vey / Feed­back Form
 

 
 
F 12/04   Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

  • focus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Electracy
    → prepa­ra­tion = work-in-progress (website)
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & assistance
     
    — dig­i­tal rhetoric (pur­pose, style, modes, approach, strate­gies, rationale)
    → take notes dur­ing dis­cus­sion, for Poetics/Summary (part 2)
     
  • look­ing ahead: Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­site) complete/finalized 12/06 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
    » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 12/07 (Mon­day night) 

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Electracy

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 
Week 13

M 11/16   dis­cuss: “The Geneal­ogy of Elec­tracy (An Inter­view with Gre­gory L. Ulmer)” Recon­struc­tion 9.2 (2009)

 

 
 

W 11/18   hybrid work :

 
» Indi­vid­ual Con­fer­ences → sched­ule using this form

 
 
 
F 11/20   Due: Blog entry 5: “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling (warm-up to project 3) — prompt below

  • also instruc­tions for optional addi­tional entry — for bonus blog credit (post Fri-Sat)

 

    » Optional Exer­cise — com­pose over Fall Break (prompt com­ing soon)

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Sensory Experience

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 
Week 12

M 11/09   Dis­cuss: Aimée Knight, “Reclaim­ing Expe­ri­ence: The Aes­thetic and Mul­ti­modal Com­po­si­tion” (2013) PDF in D2L

    focus: expe­ri­ence, ais­thetikos, empir­i­cal, media
    — intro: Exer­cise 4 (Instruc­tions page)

senses
 
 
» The CU-Boulder 21st Diver­sity and Inclu­sion Sum­mit (Novem­ber 10–11)
Detailed Sched­ule
→ optional: attend ses­sion & com­pose blog entry for bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion credit

 
 
W 11/11   hybrid work :

  • Exer­cise 4 Overview Video
  • Dis­cuss Knight arti­cle plus Vaid­hyanathan chap­ter: “The Googliza­tion of Mem­ory: Infor­ma­tion Over­load, Fil­ters, and the Frac­tur­ing of Knowl­edge” PDF in D2L
    → focus: expe­ri­ence quan­ti­fied into information/data…?
     
  • par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Reply

 
 
F 11/13   Dis­cuss: Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Sen­sory (Knight & Vaid­hyan­than readings)

    activity/focus: Exer­cise 4 composition

 
 
» Exer­cise 4 (due 11/14): Sen­sory Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Unclas­si­fi­able (10 points)

 
 



Filtered Reality

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 
Week 11

M 11/02   Dis­cuss: Ret­tberg, See­ing Our­selves Through Tech­nol­ogy: How We Use Self­ies, Blogs and Wear­able Devices to See and Shape Our­selves (2014) eBook

    Chap­ter 1 “Writ­ten, Visual and Quan­ti­ta­tive Self-Representations”
    & Chap­ter 2 “Fil­tered Reality”

 
 
W 11/04   hybrid work :

  • Dis­cuss Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
    — focus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct image/angle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal identity)
    → key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, “machine vision”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged identity
     
  • par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Reply

 
 
F 11/06   Ret­tberg Chap­ter 6, “Pri­vacy and Sur­veil­lance” (and Chap­ter 5)

 
 
» Blog Entry 4: machine vision of “me” 

    — start dur­ing class (due Fri PM)
  • use 2 quotes/passages (from chap­ters) + 2 media instances (min­i­mum)
  • com­pose “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across databases
    — use media not as exam­ple (visual) but to cre­ate this aggre­gate portrait 

 
 



Experience Paradigm

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 

    Project 2: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis Webtext
    Final ver­sion due 26-Oct (web­text pub­lished: post link on blog)
    — Com­pos­ing sum­mary + Reflec­tion due 27-Oct 
  • Direc­tory of Class Web­texts (draft/demo)

 
Week 10

M 10/26   Project Work­shop:

 

 
W 10/26   hybrid work :
    » 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

 

    » 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 

    • → Instruc­tions Page

 
→ look­ing ahead: Ret­tberg (2014 eBook), See­ing Our­selves through Technology
(read this week­end / next week)