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Changing online identities
This is in reaction to Quinn Warnick’s outstanding CCCC presentation. Quinn presented a view of online ethos at the site metafilter. The most compelling element of his talk for me was the ways in which online participants build their online … Continue reading
Customizing Commercials, the Old Spice way
I had a bit too much caffeine yesterday and was laying in bed awake at 1am. Given the ungainly hour and my reluctance to get up, my mind began to wander. And it eventually landed on the Old Spice ads … Continue reading
Teaching the Rhetoric of Commercials
I’ve been putting together the readings for a course I’m teaching this fall: Text & Discourse. It’s an intro to rhetoric styled course where you’re exposing sophomores to the idea that language has a persuasive aspect. There’s a special emphasis … Continue reading
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Tagged commerce, education, mass media, social media, visual rhetoric
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Millennials and Attention Spans
An interesting perspective hit me the other day when I was thinking about the millennial generation and their perceived short attention span. At least in my experience, baby boomers tend to think of the millennial generation as being very impatient … Continue reading
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Tagged education, knowledge creation, knowledge gap, Millenial Generation, social media, technology
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Virtual Reality Revisited: Social Media (part 3)
This is part 3 in a series of posts that look to revisit the concept of virtual reality in a web 2.0 / social media / cloud computing Internet. Part 1 is here. And part 2 is here. In this … Continue reading
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Tagged Android OS, augmented reality, gaming, mobile browsing, social media, virtual reality
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Virtual Reality Revisited (part 1)
Kind readers, kindly be patient with me as I stretch this next idea out over several posts. I’ve decided to start a multi-week series on virtual reality, or rather revisiting the concept in the context of a Web 2.0/social media/cloud … Continue reading
The Internet Bus (Part II)
Well, the post last week elicited enough interest that I thought a follow-up may be in order. Last week, I laid out my complaints of the deployment of “technology” in public schools (technology is in quotes, as I’m purposefully misusing … Continue reading
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Tagged community service, education, knowledge creation, mobile browsing, social media, technology
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How much does this generation really read?
The University of California at San Diego recently published a study looking at the amount of reading done by the average person today. In a highly abbreviated form, the results say that the typical person today reads about as much … Continue reading
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Facebook v. Twitter: Which will change the world?
So, I promised that this blog post would be more upbeat. To that end, I’ve decided to predict which of the two most prominent social networking sites — Facebook or Twitter — will have the greatest impact on society in … Continue reading
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Tagged commerce, information dissemination, knowledge creation, social media
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