Dissertation Topic – Online Video Conversations
November 25th, 2008Here is a video directed at my dissertation committee. However, as it discusses my direction, I am posting it here. Read the rest of this entry »
12 Seconds
November 11th, 2008I was recently introduced to 12 seconds. It is another online video site. However, with this one, you only get 12 seconds to say what you need to say. At first thought, this might seem a questionable format, as there is little one can say in a mere 12 seconds. However, Read the rest of this entry »
ATTW Conference Presentation Proposal
October 24th, 2008Here is the proposal I am submitting for the 2009 ATTW Conference:
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The Social/Rhetorical/Epistemic Situation of Audio-Visual Discussion
October 17th, 2008This post is in response to This comment, which essentially inquires as to the way in which elements of primary AND which elements of secondary orality play into:
- Orally-based web 2.0 technologies;
- Interpersonal relationships and the associated oral communication patterns;
- People in front of the radio or around an orator versus the experience of having those relationships in a virtual environment;
- Orality and epistemology; and
- Oral communicative patterns.
Additionally, the comment acknowledges the freedom podcasts [and related audio-visual discussions] grant us in terms of when/where (portability) and inquires as to how such technologies meet the innate need to set new knowledge into social context.
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