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Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture
Fernback, Jan. “Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture.” New Media & Society 5 1 (2003): 29-45. “The potential of the internet as an(sic) medium of orality is worth of scholarly reflection.” (pg. 30.). This statement is unquestionably accurate. However, real-time textual chat modes–a medium the author…
Reading List – 1st Draft
Here is the first draft of my reading list, submitted to my committee on 09.09.09. Please know that the formatting is Definitely a work-in-progress.
MEA Presentation June, 2009
I’ve just posted a video of the presentation I gave in June for the MEA Conference. Digital Orality and the Online Video Conversation: Simulating Synchronicity and Preserving Humanness in Distance Communication Here is the latest presentation. This was presented on June 19th at St. Louis University for the Tenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology…
May 2009 Presentation at Texas Tech
I’ve just posted a video of the presentation I gave at Texas Tech. The Embedded Online Video Conversation: Humanness and the Semi-Synchronous Situation in the Asynchronous Online Classroom It discusses the use of Viddler in the online, asynchronous classroom, including an account of data collected through a student survey. This, is getting closer to my…
Dissertation Topic – 01.09
While much of this may sound familiar, I am really fine-tuning the topic and have here added the beginnings of a (the?) research question. I welcome any feedback/questions, at this point.
Dissertation Topic Detailed
As discussed in my November 25th post on Dissertation Topic – Online Video Conversations, I have focused down the topic and am moving forward. Here is an informal proposal detailing the direction I am going. As my die-hard follower(s) might notice, some of this was a portion of the ATTW proposal – that is a…
Dissertation Topic – Online Video Conversations
Here is a video directed at my dissertation committee. However, as it discusses my direction, I am posting it here.
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…