Author: Anne Nelson
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Companies feat. HCI
I’ve asserted previously that companies must be held accountable if we want to the Web to improve, and I think HCI can help us achieve that.
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Media Hold Responsibility
Chris Gilliard says “saving” the web via higher ed means envisioning “new ways to exist online.” I say we need to hold companies accountable.
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Code: The Tool Behind Digital Rhetoric
Digital rhetoric is built through code; it is what makes digital rhetoric possible. However, it is not rhetorical itself.
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“New Media” is Not a Pet; Give It a Better Name
Naming a cat “Sir Rat the Third” is one thing, but calling new media “new” when it’s not just about being new is a whole other bad idea.
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Fanfics May Be New Media
The comments made on fanfics do not make them interactive. They are already interactive on their own, and possibly qualify as new media.
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The Weight of Digital Text: Formal v. Informal
Sven Birkerts is not as compelling as J. D. Applen thinks. In fact, Birkerts’ words are as weightless as he deems digital texts to be.
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Visual Rhetoric v. Study of Design
Why should things like written documents be in the study of design, when the layout of website interfaces is seen as visual rhetoric?
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Text: The Expansion Pack
Doug Eyman doesn’t want to limit the definition of “text” while it’s still growing. Yet, he spends five pages defining it. Why?
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Reading Away Goldfish Memory
In “Phaedrus,” Plato worries that with literacy will come a forgetfulness. But in my case, literacy helps me remember things.
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Establishing digital rhetoric isn’t so easy
We are taught that the type of persuasion to use depends on our audience. Well, that just got hell of a lot harder with digital rhetoric.
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Digital literacy is an onion
Doug Eyman “defines” digital literacy in his article. But, really, all he gave us was a half-peeled onion and a lot of uncertainty.
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Context changes meaning
Just because Doug Eyman establishes a different meaning of “digital” does not mean what we’ve believed it to mean up until now is inaccurate.
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“Nothing is new under the sun”: It’s just intertexted differently
There’s no such thing as original ideas because of intertextuality. What makes them original is how they are incorporated.
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Digital privacy: Why don’t we care?
The warm, comfy sheets of your “filter bubble” are not all fun and games as they seem. You should care about your digital privacy.