Graffiti: I Write, Therefore I Am

Posted February 10th, 2010 by admin and filed in graffiti, In-class Posts
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As you listen to the brief presentations today, identify the rhetorical strategies that different presenters used. Which ones caught your attention? Which ones helped you better understand the reading?

What are the Ingredients?

Posted February 1st, 2010 by admin and filed in In-class Posts, Jenkins
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Based on the readings, the videos, and class responses, what are the ingredients for making compositions that bring about change?

Electronic Revolutions: 1959-2009

Posted January 20th, 2010 by admin and filed in In-class Posts
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In 1959, McLuhan wrote, “Educators naturally feel that their job is to maintain the educational establishment, and to preserve and advance the values so long aassociated with its procedures” (2). He was talking about the role of print which he explains not only provides “access to our culture and technology” but” is our culture and technology” (3). Considering that 30 years have passed and a lot of new technologies have emerged, what do you make of McLuhan’s comments?