Paradigm Rhetoric

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)
 


Week 16

M 25-Apr Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and in­sights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     


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




W 27-Apr hy­brid work  Blog En­try + Dis­cus­sion

  • due class time: blog en­try (200 words, infor­mal dis­cus­sion; me­dia, any form); 
    → see prompts be­low (choose 1)
     
  • Dur­ing class time: in com­ments be­low, post link; read classmate(s) en­try and dis­cuss
     
  • op­tional par­tic­i­pa­tion: com­pose 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 29-Apr 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 04/30): Port­fo­lio Re­flec­tion
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 







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ScreenSelfPortrait

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)


Week 15

M 18-Apr Work­shop: Project 3 In­tro & Overview

  • 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 for discovery+invention (Blog en­try 5)
     
  • look­ing ahead: sketch/map project (out­line pages/segments)
    — be­gin com­pil­ing & cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for com­pos­ing
    → con­sider web­site to use for part 1: Wix​.com, Wee​bly​.com, Word­Press pages
    (oth­ers? Jimdo? Moon­fruit?)







W 20-Apr hy­brid work — Work­shop: mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing, me­dia edit­ing, expres­sive page/segment de­sign (dig­i­tal rhetoric)

  • 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; arrangement/organization fo­cus
     
  • look­ing ahead: con­tinue sam­pling, edit­ing, cre­at­ing me­dia; be­gin cre­at­ing site…
     




F 22-Apr Work­shop: mul­ti­modal / expres­sive web pages

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment / orga­ni­za­tion; work­ing in Elec­tracy (aes­thetic mode)
    → prepa­ra­tion = work-in-progress (web­site started)
     
  • activ­ity: peer feed­back & tech 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 04/24 — link from your blog (or in D2L)
    » Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 04/24 (Mon­day night) 



Electracy

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 13

M 11-Apr read to dis­cuss: “The Geneal­ogy of Elec­tracy (An Inter­view with Gre­gory L. Ul­mer)” Recon­struc­tion 9.2 (2009) PDF op­tion

  • fo­cus: appa­ra­tus the­ory, invent­ing elec­tracy, affective-aesthetic par­a­digm… (Unit 3 in­quiry)
     
  • dis­cuss: ideas from Ex­er­cise 4 Part 2
    → im­pli­ca­tions for ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity; aes­thetic po­ten­tial in Elec­tracy
    (con­nect with Ret­tberg & Knight read­ings?)
     
  • help­ful re­view / re­watch: “Ul­mer Tapes” videos (2010) 2.04 | 2.05 | 2.06





W 13-Apr hy­brid work :




F 15-Apr ac­tiv­ity: “per­sonal data­base” sam­pling for in­ven­tion & mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing (warm-up to project 3)

» Due: Blog en­try 5 — prompt be­low



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Sensory Experience

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait



Week 12

M 04-Apr Dis­cuss: Aimée Knight, “Reclaim­ing Expe­ri­ence: The Aes­thetic and Mul­ti­modal Com­po­si­tion” (2013) PDF in Drive

senses


W 06-Apr hy­brid work :

  • Dis­cuss Knight arti­cle plus Vaid­hyanathan chap­ter: “The Googliza­tion of Mem­ory: Infor­ma­tion Over­load, Fil­ters, and the Frac­tur­ing of Knowl­edge” PDF (Drive & D2L)

    → fo­cus: expe­ri­ence quan­ti­fied into information/data…?
     
  • par­tic­i­pa­tion: Com­ment & Re­ply in dis­cus­sion thread be­low
    → see Prompts here




F 08-Apr Dis­cuss: Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Sen­sory (Knight & Vaid­hyan­than read­ings)

    activity/focus: Exer­cise 4 com­po­si­tion



» Exer­cise 4 (due 04/09): Sen­sory Expe­ri­ence Quan­ti­fied & Unclas­si­fi­able (10 points)








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Filtered Reality

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait


Week 11

M 28-Mar In­tro: Unit 3 “Ex­pe­ri­ence Par­a­digm” — Overview Video

  • 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”
     
    → quotes doc be­low

  • Fo­cus (unit theme): rep­re­sent­ing ex­pe­ri­ence & iden­tity — aes­thetic or quan­ti­ta­tive…
     
    → ideas from Blog En­try 3 + Wieseltier­jan ar­ti­cle + Ul­mer videos (be­fore break)
     
    * “Ap­pa­ra­tus The­ory” chart: Oral­ity | Lit­er­acy | Elec­tracy
     



W 30-Mar hy­brid work: on­line dis­cus­sion be­low



F 01-Apr Quan­ti­fied Dig­i­tal Iden­tity

  • read & dis­cuss: Ret­tberg Chap­ter 5, “Quan­ti­fied Selves”
    — fo­cus: “Quan­ti­fied self-representation” (dis­tinct an­gle of medi­ated expe­ri­ence & dig­i­tal iden­tity)
    » key top­ics: “dataism,” tech-cultural fil­ters, capta, “ma­chine vi­sion”; “dig­i­tal traces” & curated/logged iden­tity
    → quotes doc be­low
     
  • also watch Idea Chan­nel: “How Pow­er­ful are Algo­rithms?” (2014)
     
  • Ac­tiv­ity: start “snap­shot of Ma­chine Vi­sion” (data­base iden­ti­ties) for blog en­try
     
    » look­ing ahead: Exer­cise 4 and Project 3
    → Tu­to­r­ial Video for Ex­er­cise (watch by/on Mon­day)



» Blog En­try 4: ma­chine vi­sion of “me” — Data­Self Snap­shot 

    — start dur­ing class; due Sat­ur­day
  • use 2 concepts/terms, at least one quote/passage from chap­ters; plus 2 me­dia in­stances (min­i­mum), em­bed­ded in en­try
  • com­pose snap­shot “data por­trait” of [your] dig­i­tal traces/footprints, quan­ti­fied iden­tity collected/measured across net­works & data­bases (24−48 hours)
    — use me­dia not as exam­ple (vi­sual) but to com­pose this snap­shot por­trait 




Publish Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

    due dates:
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop
  • 3/15 Fi­nal­ized / Pub­lished as Web­text
  • 3/16 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 10


M 14-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: en­tire es­say com­posed; web de­sign started (pages + me­dia)
     
  • focus/activity: peer feed­back — dig­i­tal rhetoric for in­tended au­di­ence
     
    → project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast); trou­bleshoot­ing
    re­source: De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
     
  • fo­cus / look­ing ahead: completing/finalizing web­text
    → Due 3/15: post link on Project 2 Page of your blog 




W 16-Mar In­di­vid­ual Con­fer­ences — by ap­point­ment

» Due 3/16: Part 2 (Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion) — Page on your blog




F 18-Mar  Blog En­try 3 (prompt be­low)



*over Spring Break: op­tional Blog En­try and op­tional Ex­er­cise — prompts be­low



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Composing Analytic Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

    due dates:
  • 3/11 Draft for Peer Re­view
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop — fi­nal­ize Web­text De­sign
  • 3/15 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 9


M 07-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: sources fi­nal­ized; notes on all cat­e­gories — use Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
    (make a copy and com­plete)
     
    → cre­ate out­line (essay/webtext sec­tions) & be­gin draft­ing
     
  • re­view: objec­tives, top­ics, strate­gies — an­a­lytic writ­ing for pur­pose & au­di­ence
     
  • Activity/focus: orga­ni­za­tion, arrangement/sections, out­line
    — Pur­due OWL — Out­lines
     
    next steps: out­line top­ics; be­gin draft­ing — for Peer Re­view Fri­day




W 09-Mar hy­brid work

  • Draft Project Sec­tions (web­text pages)
     
  • dur­ing class time: Post in dis­cus­sion thread be­low “sta­tus up­date” & class­mate re­ply (see de­tailed prompts)
     
    » rhetor­i­cal & com­pos­ing strate­gies for draft — espe­cially sections/topics (ratio­nale), address­ing imag­ined audi­ence, help­ful re­sources con­sulted, etc.
     
  • for Fri­day, con­sult the De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
    — be­gin con­sid­er­ing form (web­text with vi­sual me­dia), if not yet de­sign­ing
     




F 11-Mar  Project Work­shop:

  • Peer Re­view ac­tiv­ity — draft due

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment, ana­lytic writ­ing style, audi­ence con­sid­er­a­tions
     
    » Peer Re­view Guide — Google Doc
     
  • in­tro: project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast)
     
    *look­ing ahead: cre­ate web­text project (for Mon­day work­shop) — fi­nal ver­sion due 3/14 PM
     








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Information Paradigm

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up ex­er­cise:
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ex­er­cise due Sat 27-Feb


Week 8


M 29-Feb  read/discuss: chap­ter from Day (2001), The Mod­ern Inven­tion of Infor­ma­tion (pp. 7–36) PDF in D2L

→ Quotes Doc be­low

  • focus/discuss: de­vel­op­ing ideas from/beyond Rhet Analy­sis to­ward Project
     
  • Con­tinue re­search — finding/choosing rep­re­sen­ta­tive ex­am­ples, sources schol­arly (ar­ti­cles & books) and on­line (share/consult info, com­mu­ni­cate in dis­ci­pline, etc.)




W 02-Mar hy­brid work — com­ment & re­ply in thread be­low — see Dis­cus­sion Prompts:

  • dis­cuss Day Chap­ter 2 (cont’d) + your project/topic
     
    Vaid­hyanathan (2011): “The Googliza­tion of Knowl­edge: The Fu­ture of Books” (149−73) PDF in D2L
     
  • watch video: Brain­Craft — “What is a Fact?” PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios (2015)


→ All week: con­tinue se­lect­ing sources and devel­op­ing ideas for project, notes & exam­ples for each issue/category…

    spe­cial­ized dis­course of your field/discipline in “Infor­ma­tion Par­a­digm” —
    Infor­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Exper­tise, Re­search, Argu­ment, Evidence/Proof,
    Dis­course com­mu­ni­ties, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­ven­tions (rhetorical/written).



F 04-Mar  Ac­tiv­ity: project warm-up → iden­tify top­ics of spe­cial­ized dis­course of your field/discipline

  • dis­cuss ex­am­ples from Day & Vaid­hyanathan read­ings
    + from     your se­lected sources
     
  • fo­cus: top­ics for project → cre­ate out­line
     
    » Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
     
     
    *look­ing ahead: gen­er­ate notes (com­plete “work­sheet” guide) & cre­ate out­line; if pos­si­ble, be­gin draft­ing sec­tion of project (for Mon­day work­shop)
     





Rhetorical Analysis

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up ex­er­cises:
  • An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy due 21-Feb (in D2L)
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ex­er­cise due Sat 27-Feb


Week 7


M 22-Feb  Ac­tiv­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of se­lected article/source (from A-Bib)

  • fo­cus: gen­er­at­ing in­sights and ideas for Project 2 through analy­sis
    → see guide PDF & page @ Silva Rhetor­i­cae
     
    *use ar­ti­cle from A-Bib, or choose an­other for ex­er­cise
     
  • dis­cuss: stages/steps, process, time­line for Project
    → be­gin­ning with an­a­lyz­ing one schol­arly ar­ti­cle for ob­ser­va­tions & ideas
     
  • con­tin­ued top­ics: iden­ti­fy­ing & defin­ing defin­ing In­for­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Ex­per­tise, “Re­search,” Ar­gu­ment, Evidence/Proof in field/discipline
    → “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties” & rhetorical/written con­ven­tions



W 24-Feb hy­brid work :


→ con­tinue “step 1” of rhetor­i­cal analy­sis through/for Fri­day…



F 26-Feb Ac­tiv­ity: Ex­er­cise warm-up 

  • review/discuss: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ob­jec­tives and strate­gies
    → tran­si­tion from ideas from analy­sis to pre­sent­ing crit­i­cal points for re­sponse (group/connect top­i­cally, with con­cise ex­am­ples and fram­ing lan­guage).
     
    plus, if time: iden­ti­fy­ing types of ar­gu­ment
  • progress to­ward project: dis­cuss ob­ser­va­tions about con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­nity, type/s of knowl­edge, and “in­for­ma­tion par­a­digm” (world­view)…



    • » due (27-Feb) Ex­er­cise 3: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (of 1 schol­arly ar­ti­cle)

Specialized Discourse

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext


Week 6


M 15-Feb Read: Homes (2015), “Be care­ful, your love of sci­ence looks a lot like re­li­gion” Quartz​.com
+ bring reading/text from an­other class (in your ma­jor)

  • fo­cus: as­sump­tions (or “givens”) of your dis­ci­pline?
    → ex­am­ple “Sci­en­tism” and/in the In­for­ma­tion Par­a­digm
     
  • re­view: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy ob­jec­tives & process (Project 2 Ex­er­cise)
    — work on this all week
    (con­tinue search, browse, com­pile since Fri­day: on­line source/s for ex­pert info and/or com­mu­ni­ca­tion? plus texts rep­re­sen­ta­tive of field) → dis­cuss ben­e­fits of brows­ing (vs. search­ing)
  • question/topic (for Project): what is “re­search” in your field?
    — con­tin­ued topics/questions: defin­ing In­for­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Ex­per­tise, Ar­gu­ment, Ev­i­dence


» CU Li­braries — Find Ar­ti­cles / Browse Data­bases



W 17-Feb hy­brid work :




F 19-Feb Dis­cuss: “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties,” dis­ci­pline con­ven­tions (rhetorical/written), sit­u­ated knowledge/information

  • Links be­low (op­tional re­sources; not re­quired read­ing)
     
  • ac­tiv­ity: A-Bib re­view & warm-up
    prepa­ra­tion: have/bring schol­arly ar­ti­cles (from re­search)



» due (02−21) Ex­er­cise 2: An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy

    look­ing ahead: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of one se­lected ar­ti­cle (Mon­day ac­tiv­ity)