contemplating digital orality

Crowston, Kevin, and Marie Williams. “Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web.” Information Society 16 3 (2000): 201-15.

Given its attention to the definition and consideration of the communication genre, I am drawing on this article to help support my suggestion of the Online Video Conversation (OVC) as a new communication genre.

In this 2000 article, Crowston and Williams look to how genres are formed on the Web. They define communicative genre as “an accepted type of communication sharing common form, content, or purpose, such as an inquiry, letter, memo, or meeting.” (pg. 202). Read the rest of this entry »

Here is my Prezi Presentation from Day 2, 2009 PodcampAZ:
The Online Video Conversation: Yeah, you can use it for that.

Here is my Prezi Presentation from Day 1, 2009 PodcampAZ:
Using Video to Communicate in the Asynchronous Online Classroom