OK, I’ve been away from here for a while, tending to teaching and other duties, including this new blog/Web site design, which is still not quite complete as of this date. I have not been hugely active in blogging on digital orality since last Fall. However, if all goes as planned, this blog is about to become quite active (ok, perhaps not for about two more weeks). So, to get back into it, for my readers and myself, I want to post a quick refresher of where I am and what I mean by digital orality, since that’s really the fundamental topic on which this site and my studies are based. Read more…
Tagged Digital Orality | Have your say » | 06.29.2008 at 11:19 pm
Parker presents a few characteristics of Powerpoint that do not seem to be as unique as she suggests. Read more…
Tagged New Media Rhetoric | Have your say » | 05.14.2008 at 9:43 pm
Here are a few ideas on the project: Read more…
Tagged New Media Rhetoric | 2 Comments » | 05.13.2008 at 7:00 am
Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue. Manovich calls modularity the “fractal structure of new media.” Read more…
Tagged New Media Rhetoric | 1 Comment » | 05.12.2008 at 9:36 pm
Even after reading Manovich’s chapter on this topic, my concept of new media is a bit fuzzy. I can provide examples of New Media tools and features, but of increasing worth is the ability to provide a list of characteristics of what is and what is not New Media. Manovich addressed exactly these points; however, I question and disagree with some of his points. (I’ll address this point in a later post).
New Media is Read more…
Tagged New Media Rhetoric | 3 Comments » | 05.08.2008 at 1:29 am
