Category Archives: discourse & technology
The Social/Rhetorical/Epistemic Situation of Audio-Visual Discussion
This post is in response to This comment, which essentially inquires as to the way in which elements of primary AND which elements of secondary orality play into: Orally-based web 2.0 technologies; Interpersonal relationships and the associated oral communication patterns; People in front of the radio or around an orator versus the experience of having…
Audio-Visual Discussions
In response to This comment, I’m not fully comfortable with “Video Chat,” which seems to suggest conversations generally formed of quick snippets of thought that are conversational and not fully thought-out before presentation. I’d prefer a title like “video discussion” or “audio-visual discussion.” [NOTE: While a google search of “visual discussion” revealing 3750 hits, shows…
Semi-Synchronous Communication: Adding Notes in Viddler.
Last week, I was discussing with someone the ability one has to add textual comments (annotations) to the timeline of online videos, such as in YouTube and Viddler. In this way, one is commenting textually at certain points in the timeline of the video. This is rather exciting, since it breaks a limitation of annotating…
Bridging the Social Gap of Instant Messaging
In response to “Are these media the ‘fitting response’ to an oral communicative exigence, that now gets expressed textually? Is this the answer to bridging geographic distance textually but using rules clearly based in orality, afforded by the new technologies?” I took this to refer to bridging the situation that since you are not right…
Ann Marie Seward Barry on Visual Rhetoric
Barry, Ann Marie Seward. 1997. “Perception and Visual Common Sense.” Visual Intelligence. Albany: SUNY Press _________________ Here is the Q&A for this Barry article on Perception and Visual Common Sense:
Warnick, Welch, and Zappen on Electronic Rhetoric
Again, I read a number of articles (cited below) and was posed relating questions: Warnick, Barbara. 2005. “Looking to the Future: Electronic Texts and the Deepening Interface.” Technical Communication Quarterly 14(3), 327-333. Welch, Kathleen. 1999. “Technologies of Electric Rhetoric.” Electric Rhetoric. Cambridge: MIT Press. Zappen, James P. “Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory.” Technical Communication…
McLuhan and Postman on New Media Criticism
McLuhan, Marshall. 2003 (orig. 1962 & 1964). “Two Selections by Marshall McLuhan.” In The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press. Postman, Neil. 1992. “Invisible Technologies.” Technopoly. New York: Vintage Books. After reading these noted articles, I had the following two questions posed:
Ong and Heim on Digital Literacy & Transformation Theory
Heim, Michael. 1999 (orig. 1987). “The Theory of Transformative Technologies.” Electric Language, 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Ong, Walter. 1982. “Some Theorems.” Orality and Literacy. New York: Routledge. Here are a couple articles/chapters and the questions I was asked related to them:
Foucault and Feenberg on Truth and Technology
A few weeks ago, I read the following pieces from Feenberg and Foucault. Feenberg, Andrew. 2002. “The Critical Theory of Technology.” Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Foucault, Michel. 1984. “Truth and Power” & “What Is an Author?” The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books. Following this reading,…
Derrida – On the Demise of Language Through Writing (Part 2)
Last week, I had three questions posed on recent readings of Derrida. Here are the questions and my responses. While Birkerts lays out a clear demarcation between electronic and print writing, Derrida writes in the pre-Internet era. If you were to hypothesize how Derrida would treat the relationship between print and electronic “text,” what would…