Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing for Digital Spaces. New posts arrive weekly throughout the semester.
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Fortnite is a Digital Experience
Fortnite is a popular game that is still in the video gaming world! It is also considered a text, especially in the digital aspect. But how?
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Writing, Memory, and the Shape of Thought
Writing transformed human consciousness by fixing thought in text, while digital media reshapes how orality and literacy interact today.
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Communication is Key!
Communication takes many forms, some old and some new. Whether spoken or written, communication shapes how we view the world around us.
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Redefining Literacy in the Age of Old and New Media
Peaceful mountains with a winding path symbolize literacy evolving through social, cultural, and technological change over time.
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The Greek Tragedy: Spoken and Written Culture
The Greek aoidos are a powerful example, showing how culture first spread through oral storytelling and then was later adopted to writing.
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Digital Rhetoric: Not Your Momma’s Rhetoric
This article explore what new rhetorical devices that digital tools bring to the art of communication and how it compares to older tools.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web (87)
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships (361)
- Topic 2: Power Distribution (101)
- Topic 3: Public Audiences, Public Authors (145)
- Uncategorized (79)
- Unused Topics from Past Semesters (404)
- Connections (11)
- Mediums (64)
- New Media (30)
- New Media and Literacy (77)
- Refining Terms (16)
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy (75)
- Text (79)
- The (Late) Age of Print (57)
- Traditional Writing (9)
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