Day 2
Tech Issues
Introductions
Career, corporations, professional writing, technical writing
Hybrid designation, office number correction
Syllabus Review
Tech Lit-Narrative, changed date.
Thoughts on the development of the class. Gee, Ong, Great Divide, Sound
Terms for discussion: What is technology?
Tools, technologies, natural language, writing, machines, institutions, assemblages, artifacts, nature, culture, wilderness, society, media, medium, print, literacy, digital literacy, platform, interface, hyperlink, dis/mis/information, others to add?
In your experience, what are some things that you’ve seen come in and out of style?
Apparatus Chart, epistemologies, final vocabularies, circumferences, ideologies, paradigms
What is the milieu of the artifact?
Question about consequences of a technology.
Students discuss the sections of Gee and Postman in groups and then come back together.
Ulmer Tapes 02.04, 02.05, 02.06
Next Week:McLuhan and Pratt