Halbert – Resisting Intellectual Property Law

Halbert, Debora J. Resisting Intellectual Property Law. New York: Routledge, 2005. Print. Introduction Book Overview: Chapter 1:  This chapter considers the public domain – it defines the original intent of the public domain before moving on to consider how it is “interwoven” with copyright law in order to point out how this concept serves the “public” as opposed to the “private.”  By rejuvenating the... Read More

Boon – In Praise of Copying

Boon, Marcus. In Praise of Copying. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Print. Introduction B. recalls Baudrillard’s meditations on Disney World as “model” or produced, intentionally designed space that recalls another space but can exist in almost any place. . . an inorganic simulation of the original space. B. notes that in this book he’s going to argue that copying is what makes us human and is a fundamental... Read More

Wysocki et al. – Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition

Wysocki, Anne Frances et al. Writing New Media : Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, 2004. Print. Opening New Media to Writing: Openings and Justifications (Wysocki) W. references Bolter and Kress early on in this first chapter to point out the fact that writing is always changing; however, today, writing’s “material practice” is changing in fairly quick and momentous ways. ... Read More

Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now

Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More

Gross – Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies

Gross, Alan G. Starring the Text : The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Print. Part One: The Case for the Rhetorical Analysis of Science Chapter One: The Achievements of Rhetoric of Science In the preface Gross is careful to distinguish between rhetoric as metadiscipline and rhetoric as a tool to consider the epistemology of science: rhetoric isn’t the master discipline; rather,... Read More