Shirky – File-Sharing Goes Social
Shirky, Clay. “File-Sharing Goes Social.” Clay Shirky’s Writings About the Internet.2/15/2010 (2003). <http://www.shirky.com/writings/file-sharing_social.html>. Shirky highlights the RIAA’s “Crush the Connectors” strategy in this article. Specifically Shirky notes how the disintegration of highly networked, multiply linked node systems via RIAA action will work to deter file sharing among groups; however, he also... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Routledge, et.al.
Routledge, Paul, Andrew Cumbers, and Corinne Nativel. “Grassrooting Network Imaginaries: Relationality, Power, and Mutual Solidarity in Global Justice Networks.” Environment and Planning A 39 11 (2007): 2575-92. Print. This piece looks at the Latourian notion of “translation” to see how connections are created and sustained within a network of global justice – People’s Global Action Asia. In so doing, this piece discusses... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Eyman et.al.
Eyman, Douglas, Stephanie Sheffield, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss. “Developing Sustainable Research Networks in Graduate Education.” Computers and Composition 26 1 (2009): 49-57. Print. This article argues that because of the rapid changes in knowledge production and circulation in academia from a top-down, print culture (journal) to distributed, bottom up systems of the web the format, curricula and research networks developed at the graduate... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – DeVoss, Cushman, Grabill
DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, Ellen Cushman, and Jeffrey T. Grabill. “Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing.” College Composition and Communication 57 1 (2005): 14-44. Print. The authors are going to take up the “moment in time, space, institutional relations, and seemingly insurmountable obstacles” involved in student created new media projects (15). The political and institutional infrastructures that allow new... Read More
CCR601 – Genealogy – 1st Generation
Rickert, Thomas. “In the House of Doing: Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience.” JAC 24 (2004): 901-927. Executive Summary: Rickert begins this article by discussing how Foucault and Barthes both challenged the existence of the autonomous author. From the author, he moves on to writing. Like the author, writing is spectral in the sense that it embodies the thoughts, writing, images, events, feelings of others as it comes from the author. ... Read More
