CCR691 – Final Project – Hunter
Hunter, Shona. “Oscillating Politics and Shifting Agencies: Equalities and Diversity Work and Actor Network Theory.” Equal Opportunities International 26 5 (2007): 402-19. Print. This essay uses ANT to develop an analysis of Iopia, a Black woman equalities educator working in a prison in the UK in an education context. The article hopes to demonstrate how the actor-network interacts with both human and non human... Read More
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 Collin Brooke and Adam Banks both dealt with issues of technology in theory and practice. Since... Read More
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 the system to “add important details, edit names, locate duplicates,... Read More
Reassembling the Social – Latour
Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. New York: Oxford UP, USA, 2005. Print. Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations* In the introduction, Latour illustrates how the traditional goals/definitions of sociology have been to apply the “social” lens to explain a state of affairs. In fact, the “social” as it is used in the social sciences has been overused to the point of meaning... Read More
CCR691 – Week 3 – Ch. 2 Blog for Comment
Chapter 2 : Poetics and Narrativity: How Texts Tell Stories – Phillip Eubanks Main Claims / Executive Summary In this chapter, Eubanks sets out to reclaim narrative and metaphorical criticism from the hands of “traditional poetics” in order to recognize how influential narrative and metaphor are to the creation of meaning in daily life. To achieve this, he begins by grounding the all-pervasiveness of narrativity in two areas:... Read More
