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
   

 
» 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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» Blog Entry 6:

200 words (infor­mal dis­cus­sion) + media (any form)
infor­mal entry; post on your blog by 3pm W 12/9
Reply to class­mate is optional (bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion)

 

» Prompt 1
Dis­cuss per­sonal world­view in terms of “par­a­digm rhetoric” (any/all topics):

– primary/privileged form(s) of Knowl­edge. Sources & frames of ref­er­ence for this perspective
– how Knowl­edge is com­mu­ni­cated or applied (for­mally & infor­mally? indi­vid­u­ally & collectively?)
– most visible/recognizable or promi­nent Insti­tu­tion? (gen­eral & specific)
– what is excluded, omit­ted, left out, dis­counted, over­looked? (delib­er­ately or incidentally)
– what “counts as” Expe­ri­ence? (how viewed/regarded) And how Expe­ri­enced is under­stood, rep­re­sented, expressed
– how Iden­tity expe­ri­enced and per­formed (enabled and con­strained?) indi­vid­u­ally and collectively

As prepa­ra­tion, help­ful to recall (and per­haps dis­cuss) the “per­sonal data­bases” and dis­courses explored for ScreenSelfPortrait:
Autobiography/Family, Dis­ci­pline (major/career field), Community/Social, Entertainment/Culture

As well, be sure to con­sider our units and projects: Belief-Story (Oral­ity), Information-Argument (Lit­er­acy), Affective-Expressive (Elec­tracy) in per­spec­tive of Appa­ra­tus Theory
— as well as any world­views we have not cov­ered.
Be sure to con­clude with at least one insight (1−2 sen­tences?) about your world­view and (using) the per­spec­tive of “par­a­digm rhetoric” this semes­ter and beyond.

 

note: if you are inter­ested to explore fur­ther, this prompt is draws indi­rectly upon the the­ory of “stand­point epis­te­mol­ogy” — Stan­ford Ency­clo­pe­dia   |   Inter­net Ency­clo­pe­dia of Philosophy

 

 
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» Prompt 2
Dis­cuss the poten­tial ben­e­fits and appli­ca­tion of “par­a­digm rhetoric” per­spec­tive beyond the course — in con­texts edu­ca­tional, pro­fes­sional, public/civic, per­sonal, hybrid, or other. While this can be spec­u­la­tive, address a spe­cific area rel­e­vant to you per­son­ally (espe­cially future courses or pro­fes­sional set­tings); brain­storm and con­sider sev­eral angles, includ­ing obvi­ous and indi­rect applications.

while ours will be a philo­soph­i­cal approach and per­spec­tive, as a writ­ing & rhetoric course our pri­mary inter­est is less about “what we (can) know” and more about “how we know” and more­over how forms of knowl­edge are cre­ated and con­veyed — oral, writ­ten, image/media, quan­ti­fied, non-linguistic, sensory.
→ Syl­labus (review?) 

You might con­sider and ref­er­ence our units and projects, par­tic­u­larly the Screen­Self­Por­trait as a “par­a­dig­matic” vir­tual collage-image “to think with” — conceptual-aesthetic means for greater self-awareness or self-representation, espe­cially in our cur­rent con­di­tions of Dataism and quan­tifi­ca­tion trends. As well, con­sider (and per­haps artic­u­late) the per­spec­tive of Appa­ra­tus The­ory and the the­o­riza­tion of Elec­tracy.

Recall­ing your project and the out­comes, you might spec­u­late the poten­tial ben­e­fits, uses, appli­ca­tion, effects, etc. for any­one (beyond stu­dents in this class), con­cern­ing dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence. (And although help­ful to review your Poet­ics and Reflec­tion, avoid repeat­ing points from these; instead, extrap­o­late to broader con­text, per­haps iden­ti­fy­ing within or out­side edu­ca­tional settings…)

*Con­clude briefly (1−2 sen­tences) by spec­u­lat­ing what might change or be fur­ther enabled, rec­og­niz­ing con­ven­tions (and “con­di­tions of pos­si­bil­ity”) via the par­a­digm rhetoric per­spec­tive — in spe­cific and/or broader ways, within this con­text (and others).

 
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**Note: option­ally, you can com­pose responses to both prompts — with extra entry count­ing as bonus blog credit.