Dissertation Outline Mindmap
Continuing on with plotting and organizing my planned research, I’ve created another bubbl.us mindmap to outline how the dissertation be structured. To be sure, this is high-level, raw, and mailable. Nonetheless, I’m putting it out for a few folks to check out. Here is my Dissertation Outline mindmap.
Research Question Mindmap
Having discovered (or been directed to) bubble.us, I have been playing with this great tool and developed some mindmaps in the general aim of the dissertation. This is really an excellent tool for organizing thoughts. Of course it is logical for applying to one’s own papers. projects, and ideas. However, I am going to experiment…
Blowing Bubbl.us
A research buddy just turned me on to a new research tool. This one, bubbl.us, is a mindmapping tool. In this way, one creates an account (or not) and can then add a bubble thought and branch off new ideas to create an entire sheet. The sheet can then be shared with friends, emailed, exported,…
Connecting the Jotts to Plato
In past posts, I have established digital orality as relevant to the way we communicate using non-textual (largely oral), computer-mediated communication forms, such as podcasting and vodcasting. I have juxtaposed this concept to writing, noting the differences between the two and why communicative writing tools, such as IM and Chat cannot be forms of digital…
Back in Black… and Maroon
OK, I’ve been away from here for a while, tending to teaching and other duties, including this new blog/Web site design, which is still not quite complete as of this date. I have not been hugely active in blogging on digital orality since last Fall. However, if all goes as planned, this blog is about…
Parker on Powerpoint
Parker presents a few characteristics of Powerpoint that do not seem to be as unique as she suggests.
Modularity of New Media
Lev Manovich sites the five principles of New Media as Numerical Presentation, modularity, automation, variability, and transcoding. It is the second category, modularity, with which I seem to take issue. Manovich calls modularity the “fractal structure of new media.”
What is New Media?
After reading Manovich’s chapter on this topic, my concept of defining new media is a bit fuzzy. I can provide examples of new media tools and features, but of increasing worth is the ability to provide a list of characteristics of what is and what is not new media. Manovich addressed exactly these points; however,…
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…