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)
- reminder: Optional Exercise (extra credit points)
- Final assignment: Portfolio Reflection
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
» Blog Entry 6:
- 200 words (informal discussion) + media (any form)
informal entry; post on your blog by 12pm - Choose 1 prompt:
» 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.
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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.
» Wednesday 27-Apr Discussion:
Read classmate’s blog entry. Then, post brief & conversational response (2 sentences, informal); reply directly to their initial link comment.
This is fairly open, as long as the response is productive, extending conversation, and above-all respectful (any replies that are not will not receive credit and might be deleted if egregious or blatantly unproductive)
→ suggested responses:
note any points of similarity, explicit or implicit;
identify examples, from experience, observations, learning (classes or otherwise);
discuss any ideas suggested/inferred but not addressed directly;
propose other points of consideration (whether alternative or further);
pose a question, for further discussion
*if responding to Blog Entry discussing prompt other than one you addressed,
best strategy might simply be to
identify what the entry compelled you to think about or recognize —
especially if insight, new perspective, alternative view, etc.
→ as usual, bonus participation for responding to more than one entry (2 max)
*Please do not reply to a comment that has already received 2 responses (choose another).
https://jhjo3685.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/informal-hybrid-entry-for-427/
Informal entry for Wednesday’s class!
I completely agree with when you say that “[experience] can be understood and expressed in any form, which I think is what makes it hard to define” because like I’ve said in my blog post that to define experience is difficult enough without re-using the word “experienced”. I’m interested in the parallel between what experience is and what knowledge is because at first thought, they seem to share the same boat, but rather have a domino effect on one another.
I completely agree and like the way you phrased all the possible ways people experience things. I also like that you mentioned while there are multiple types of knowledge, some takes more importance than others.
I like what you said about this “paradigm-rhetoric” approach to worldviews being a useful tool. In my post I also mentioned that this is only a tool, and not itself a worldview. This tool provides us with a better understanding of knowledge and different means of obtaining it. It does not, however, provide us with a worldview. As Karl mentioned in his post, an example of a worldview could be Democracy, which is much more than a belief in a certain knowledge-obtaining methodology. Democracy holds that all people should be treated equally, for example, which is in no way related to knowledge; it is a moral philosophy, not a logical one.
I retract my statement about moral philosophy being unrelated to knowledge. That’s simply not true.
Whoops! I just noticed I said Karl and not Marcus! My bad. And I also noticed I sound like like a total butthead on this forum so I hope everyone knows upon reading my posts that I only intend to further the discussion at hand, and not in any way to be argumentative with anyone
https://emth4242.wordpress.com/final-blog-post-what-counts-as-experience/ attached is the link to my 2 cents on experience.
I like your discussion about how experiences can differ in different “environments”. I’ve never thought of it that way. I think that it is an interesting topic to discuss, and I think that can alter or further what it mean to have a worldview, that is a very fun insight.
I also liked that you mentioned that experience is different in different environments and with that in mind, I am also curious if experience is also different time frames–for example: is something I experienced ten years ago going to have the same effect as something I experience tomorrow? Is maturity going to mend that experience is anyway?
I like your ideas that an experience is individual, and nobody can have the same experience. It really means that this world is different per person and means that nobody is going to be the same after even an identical experience.
Blog post up for discussion for Hybrid work:
https://erhu8484blog.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/personal-world-view/
I definitely agree with all of the points that you made in your blog post. I really liked you discussion about what exemplifies an experience, and how our experiences can more or less lack fundamentals, but that is what makes it personal. I’ve learned a lot about what is considered an experience and how it is inter-laced into our daily lives which is either quantified, private, or public.
Your view of experience is interesting. In general experience is interesting because in our nature we strive to lead interesting lives. Experience is everywhere, happens everyday, every second, even in our sleep. It is difficult to put experience into words and I agree. I would say if life is a glass, then experience is water continually filling that glass.
I like this way of thinking, the databases and project 3 everyone created really shoes pieces of peoples experiences and self image through unique forms of media that put a fresh look on who we are and how we see the world.
“A photo, a gif, an essay–all of these things can [represent] our experience, as well as help let other[s] understand how we express our experience.”
Indeed! I think if the broad point of this class can be summed up in a sentence, you nailed it with this one.
I like that you incorporated your blog piece from another assignment. It looks athletically pleasing to the eye and I like your content of self-reflection on how we use social media to put out our experience and show a part of us.
https://marcusmidzor.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/blog-entry-six/
World View: Democracy
I like how you’ve identified Democracy as an example of a worldview. It contains information about moral philosophy which is not discussed in paradigm-rhetoric. However, Democracy falls short of being a complete worldview. It does not contain any religious/spiritual beliefs, or any beliefs about which “forms of knowledge” are more important than others. If a worldview is the filter through which people perceive the world, then surely these other beliefs are components of a worldview as well. Therefore, an example of a worldview would be “Democracy PLUS [other components of the worldview].” Perhaps I’m using a definition of worldview which is not intended to be used in this context. But on my blog post I’ve posted a definition from the dictionary to which I am adhering.
https://kami6748.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/final-reflection/
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/42695084/posts/1009123645
I like how you use your own personal example of being a naval officer to show how power dynamics affect how we learn and communicate with one another. holding the power vs being a subordinate is a big contributing factor to our confidence and forcefulness when conveying information and knowledge. I liked the post a lot!
My post:
https://charlesgoldenblog.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/blog-entry-6/
My bad, I had to edit my post out of OCD so I was a couple minutes late 😉
https://kbatenburg.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/final-post/
Powerful! I guess all I can say is, “I agree, I agree, I agree.” Good humor in there too 😉
https://huol1130.wordpress.com/
https://kirbybrazelton.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/different-forms-of-knowledge/
Different forms of knowledge and their application.