Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Ch. 1 “Interface”

Lingua Fracta:  Towards a Rhetoric of New Media Collin Gifford Brooke Chapter One:  Interface Wow.  A lot of stuff in this chapter.  I’ll be brief, but I don’t want to miss much! Brooke begins by sketching how an electronic essay entitled “Hypertext is Dead,” published in Kairos acted as not only a single text object, but also as something more – a new media text. A main claim of Brooke’s work:  “I believe that,... 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... Read More

CCR751 – Dinerstein – Swinging The Machine

Dinerstein, Joel. Swinging the Machine:  Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars. Amherst: UMASS Press, 2003. Introduction:  Bodies and Machines Dinerstein provides a framework for understanding his work in this first section.  He notes that he is interested in exploring an “aesthetics of acceleration” – or a demonstration of the way that A.A. cultural forms constitute any American claim of being an “accelerated”... Read More

CCR751 – Sinclair – Technology and the A.A. Experience

Sinclair, Bruce. Technology and the African-American Experience:  Needs and Opportunities for Study. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Introduction:  Integrating the Histories of Race and Technology List format today in the interest of brevity. Perceptions about inventiveness and natural aptitude have played a huge role in pushing the A.A. technological experience to the borders of accepted thought.  This is why A.A. are largely absent from the technological... Read More