CCR691 – Network – Ch. 6 – for Comment
Spinuzzi, Clay. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter Six: Is Our Network Learning? Summary: In this chapter S. discusses how the nature of work has changed fundamentally in the age of informational capitalism. By referring to workers as “deskilled” (Haraway), “dividuals” (Deleuze), “reskilled” (Castells), and “lifelong learners” (Zuboff and Maxmin), S. points out that the worker in the informational age... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Rudy
Rudy, Alan. “Actor-Network Theory, Marxist Economics, and Marxist Political Ecology*.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 16 6 (2005): 85-90. Print. The relationship between Marxism and ANT is logical because of Marxisms longtime engagement with the historical concern with relations between natures, sciences, technologies, and societies. ANT is characterized as a “non-modern relational mode of analysis” that isn’t comfortable with the dualisms of modernity: science-politics,... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Spinuzzi – TEXTS
Spinuzzi, Clay. “TEXTS OF OUR INSTITUTIONAL LIVES: Accessibility Scans and Institutional Activity: An Activity Theory Analysis.” College English 10.2 (2007): 189-201. Print. Spinuzzi defines “web accessibility” as “the ability for any user to read and understand a website with appropriate adaptive technology If a user is visually imparied, for instance, she or he should still be able to ‘read’ the site by listening to a screen reader” (189). That being... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Linstead
Linstead, Stephen. “Ethnomethodology and Sociology: An Introduction.” The Sociological Review 54 3 (2006): 399-404. Print. Ethnomethodology’s goal is to create an “alternative program to reveal social order as dynamic, contingent ‘ongoing accomplishment” (399). Ethnomethodology doesn’t consider the micro or the macro, rather, it tries to concern itself with the different contexts of accountability in which both individuals and institutions are given identity... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Johnson-Eilola
Johnson-Eilola, J. “Living on the Surface: Learning in the Age of Global Communication Networks.” Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. Ed. Snyder, Ilana. London: Routledge, 1998. 185-210. Print. In this piece, J.E. makes the argument that we are living in an age of the “surface” or of ahistorical existence. This makes the older folks (the essay is from 98) uncomfortable because the surface ignores the deep histories... Read More
