CCR691 – Project Proposal
Justin Lewis Final Project Proposal October 15, 2009 CCR691 Overview Motivation When I applied to Syracuse University a little over a year ago, I had every intention of working with folks who did “digital” rhetoric studies. Though my understanding of this particular subfield of the discipline was rather malformed and deficient, I did know that [...]
CCR691 – Final Project – Rivers
Rivers, Nathaniel A. “Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication.” Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 38 3 (2008): 189-206. Print. Rivers wants to address how collecting technologies into temporary and permanent strucutres to address the common world for the common good. For Rivers, this should be [...]
CCR691 – Final Project – Potts
Potts, Liza. “Using Actor Network Theory to Trace and Improve Multimodal Communication Design.” Technical Communication Quarterly 18 3 (2009): 281-301. Print. Potts begins the article by demonstrating how CNNs list of Hurricane Katrina missing/survivors was an exercise in a non-function network – or a non-network. Because of the sites inability for users to interact with [...]
Network – Spinuzzi
Spinuzzi, Clay. Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Communications. New York: Cambridge UP, 2008. Chapter One: Networks, Genres, and Four Little Disruptions In this introductory chapter Spinuzzi does a lot of definitional work in order to inform the rest of his study. S. is an activity theory researcher at heart; however, he also sees that AT [...]
