CCR760 – Gurak – Just Notes
I’m not on blogging duties this week, so i’m just posting notes. Gurak – Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace Chapter One – Introduction: Persuasion, Community, and Cyberspace This study deals with two online protests which “dealt with computers, privacy, and the shape of communication technology and society in the 21st century” (1) Self-selection of what to put onto the internet vs. your information being controlled by media or government conglomerates... Read More
CCR760 – A World Without Bosses? : Distributed Capitalism & Net Work
The first time I read through chapter five in Eileen’s class I became very, very frightened. I suppose my initial terror was directly tied to my now slowly deteriorating allegiance to Marxist modes of material production and the realities capitalist enterprise in the West’s progressively post-industrial age. The more and more I read about the changing nature of work in the 21st century – especially with respect to Zuboff’s In the Age of the Smart Machine:... Read More
CCR760 – Spilka et.al.
Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice – ed. Rachel Spilka Introduction – Rachel Spilka The author notes that the collection is valuable because work contexts and modes of production have changes so much over recent memory. As technical communicators, Spilka notes that the need to adopt evolution is necessary to survive. Evolution not only in technical skill, but productive flow and socializing forces are necessary to be a technical... Read More
CCR760 – As We May Have Thought: Dreaming Technological Hypertextuality
Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly. July 1945. Reprinted in Life magazine September 10, 1945. Main Claims / Executive Summary Before starting, it is interesting to note that Bush’s article was published before and reprinted after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While acknowledging that professionals involved in life sciences will continue to work toward better understandings and cures to improve the general human condition,... Read More
CCR760 – Miller, Rutter, Sullivan, Lay, Slack et. al.
Readings from Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s Central Works in Technical Communication Miller, C. (1979, 2004). A humanistic rationale for technical communication. 47-54. Rutter, R. (1991, 2004). History, rhetoric, & humanism: Toward a more comprehensive definition of technical communication. 20-34. Sullivan, D.L. (1990, 2004). Political-ethical implications of defining technical communication as a practice. 211-219. Lay, M.M. (1991, 2004). ... Read More
