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FINAL PROJECT
What an experience this course has been. I present, in this final week, my digital project - a podcast in which I examine the topic "A...
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Dec 13, 20241 min read
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Week 14: Rhetorics of Difference
This Tik Tok video by Bahamian comedian King Khloud touches on several aspects of this week's theme, the rhetorics of difference, but...
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Dec 9, 20243 min read
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Week 13: Theories of Technology
"[WO]MAN AND THE MACHINE" The image above is one of many that have been creating a buzz on the Internet this week; famous, or infamous,...
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Nov 23, 20243 min read
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Week 12: On the Changing Landscape of Surveillance
Here I go aging myself again. This was a hit song of my teen years during the 80s, it's theme of surveillance most likely appealing to...
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Nov 16, 20245 min read
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Week 11: Reflection on Entitled Opinions ( Part 2)
In last week's entry, I focused on Caddie Alford's statement, at the beginning of her book Entitled Opinions: Doxa after Digitality, ...
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Nov 10, 20243 min read
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Week 10: On Caddie Alford's Entitled Opinions
I think this meme captures how many people feel about the proliferation of opinions on social media today. In the case of this meme whose...
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Nov 3, 20243 min read
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Week 9: "Mervie" & The Rhetoric of Electracy
From: Oxford Languages online Philosophically speaking, defining rhetoric is not as simple as researching its meaning in a dictionary....
moniquemcbain
Oct 26, 20246 min read
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Week 7: The Mystory inspired "Naystory" (Am I doing this right?)
This week, I continue my reflections on complex concepts unearthed in Ulmer's TELEtheory . In the second half of his book, Ulmer...
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Oct 12, 20243 min read
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WEEK 6: A LOOK AT TELETHEORY BY GREGORY L. ULMER
For this week's entry, I opted for a distant reading/thin description of Ulmer's TELEtheory, partly because the writing was quite dense,...
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Oct 5, 20241 min read
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Week 5: On new wine in old wineskins: A reflection on the first half of Collin Gifford Brooke's LINGUA FRACTA: Towards A Rhetoric of New Media
The ideas presented so far in my reading of Lingua Fracta have been very stimulating for a number of reasons, notwithstanding the...
moniquemcbain
Sep 28, 20244 min read
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WEEK 4: Choose your Adventure…A Precursor to the Internet Rabbit Hole?
Consider the following. An innocuous search for the meaning of an academic term, for example, “thin description,” produces a hyperlink...
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Sep 20, 20243 min read
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WEEK 3: Making sense of the first half of... Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline by Derek N. Mueller
In the early chapters of Network Sense , Mueller (2017) makes the case that Rhetoric Composition/Writing Studies (RCWS) as a discipline...
moniquemcbain
Sep 13, 20242 min read
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WEEK 2: A Tale of Two Compositions: My reflections on Alexander and Rhodes' "Refiguring our Relationship to New Media"
It was the best of times. It was, well, the best of times. The first chapter of On Multimodality provides readers with a non-linear...
moniquemcbain
Sep 6, 20242 min read
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Week 1: Reflections on Jody Shipka's Toward a Composition Made Whole
As I worked my way through the introduction and the first chapter of this book, as well as a few supplementary readings, I was extremely...
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Aug 29, 20242 min read
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