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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: 

    •  

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

    •  

 
» 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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Duende

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 

F a l l B r e a k (21−29 Nov.)

 

» Optional Exercise (bonus points)

Par­a­digm Rhetoric — Another Worldview

 

Duende is the mood of dwelling in infor­ma­tion, and poetry is its logic.
[…] con­cept avatar is a thought of feel­ing as a dimen­sion of civ­i­liza­tion” (107)
— Gre­gory Ulmer, Avatar Emer­gency (2012)

 

» Optional Blog Entry (participation credit)

    * reminder optional prompt from 20-Nov
     
  • 200 words (min/max); post by 29-Nov 
  • Prompt reflect upon Blog 5 (“per­sonal data­base” sam­pling activ­ity): think­ing about dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence, while look­ing ahead to project 3 (Screen­Self­Por­trait), dis­cuss any new ideas or prospects about com­pos­ing in the affective-aesthetic par­a­digm — work­ing “in” elec­tracy as a dis­tinct appa­ra­tus (sep­a­rate from Orality-Belief and Literacy-Argument paradigms).
     
  • Use any help­ful ideas from the optional read­ing, “The Learn­ing Screen” (Net­worked 2009)
    — along with any videos from “The Ulmer Tapes”
  • Con­sult, ref­er­ence, dis­cuss Arroyo’s video Grow­ing Up with Elec­tracy” (2015)
     
    — and/or per­haps Ulmer’s talk “Elec­tracy: Writ­ing to Avatar” (2009)

 


Ulmer — “ELECTRACY: Writ­ing to Avatar” from DWRL on Vimeo

(Ulmer talk begins @ 5:30)


 
 

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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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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)