Primary Texts Fall 2023
- Alan Jakobs: After Technopoly
- Bolter: The Electronic Book
- Bolter: Writing as Technology
- Coover: The End of Books
- Critical Art Ensemble: Nomadic Power and Cultural Resistance
- deLeon: Technological Warfare
- Haraway: Cyborg Manifesto
- McLuhan for Beginners
- Neil Postman: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
- Postman: Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change
- Pratt: Arts of the Contact Zone
- Routledge Companion to Remix Studies
- Silko: Border Patrol
- Trask: From a Native Daughter
- Turkle: Video Games and Holding Power
- Wanono: Detournement as a Premise for Remix
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Online Readings
- A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
- A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
- Ain't No Walls behind the Sky, Baby! Funk, Flight, Freedom
- Digital Latinx Storytelling: testimonio as Multimodal Resistance
- Jenkins: What do you mean by Culture Jamming? Part 1
- Jenkins: What do you mean by Culture Jamming? Part 2
- Not the King: Cantando el Himno Nacional de los Estados Unidos
- Postman: Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change
- Pranking Rhetoric: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism
- Soundwriting and Resistance: Toward a Pedagogy for Liberation
- The Sixth Extinction? (New Yorker)
- The Ulmer Tapes
Soundwritings
Surveillance
- Blinding the Cyclops—Wrecking the Panopticon Camera Hunting in the Metropolis
- Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say
- The Convenience-Surveillance Tradeoff
- The Employer-Surveillance State
- The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
- The Three Major Forms of Surveillance on Facebook
- Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids
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- Institute for Applied Autonomy
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- Public Sphere Project
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final reflections and tech lit revision
ENG 1710ID Final Reflection ENG-1710-final-narrative revised
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Final Paper + Tech-Lit Final Revision
Final Paper Tech-Lit Revisions
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Nov 30th asynchronous work
What stood out to me in the Detournement reading by Nadine Wanono, was how different types of media were remixed to create a new language. A well thought out and executed culture jam doesn’t need an explanation, it’s understood. It … Continue reading
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Abraham De La Rosa’s Culture Jams – Final Draft
Culture Jams Final Draft
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Final Jams Due 12/14
Good session in class yesterday. You did some great presentations and submitted some really good culture jams. You also gave some good feedback to each other, and I’m excited about these next versions. When you submit the new ones, make … Continue reading
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Nov 30th Asynchronous Work
One thing which stood out in the Wanono reading is how detournement and remix have already been detourned from their original purpose by the advertising industry and newspaper business to be an effective commercial technic. A tool which was originally … Continue reading
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Culture Jams Project – Second Draft
Culture Jams Project Second Draft
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Asynchronous Work + Revision Culture Jam
The Wonano Detourn reading presents an overview of the French Revolution artists group that Situationist International(SI) formed to fight against and destabilize capitalist society by creating visual representations, objects, and situations. Presenting an idea on their orientations can be changed … Continue reading
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Nov. 30th asynchronous work
What stood out to me in the Wanano story was the word detournement, it is a French word used to describe the practice of old media to new. The theory relates to remix culture. In the reading it provides a … Continue reading
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Nov. 30th asynchronous work
How the wonano detourn piece relates to culture jam by stating political position assaults on art. It relates to me because all of culture james were all related to major political issues ongoing around the world currently. The article used … Continue reading
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Culture Jams
Culture Jam 1 & 2 (drafts) Culture Jam 1 & 2 – (revisions) Culture Jam 1 & 2 (final edit)
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Asyncrhronous Agenda Nov. 30
Hey folks, I sent everyone a text message that I took a turn for the worse and we won’t be meeting online today. So since we’re not meeting in class, we will complete some work asyncrhronously. Write a blog post. … Continue reading
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Class is Virtual Thursday 11/30
Hey folks, I hope you had a great thanksgiving holiday. I’m under the weather and don’t want to get anyone sick, so we’ll be meeting online this coming Thursday. A few things: Last class meeting I forgot that Jetmire and … Continue reading
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Blog Post #10
The first idea I had for the culture jams project is about the discrimination the LGBTQ face and the various bills which have been proposed to take away their rights. Over the course of this year, over 500 bills have … Continue reading
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Blog Post 10
One idea for my culture jam is Tik Tok shop, which is a function within the app that allows users to purchase items shown in live videos. Users can watch a review of a product and directly add it to … Continue reading
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blog post 10
One idea for the culture jam is Nike. The idea behind this is motto “just do it” and sweatshops. Nike is a brand that pushes the idea of needing their clothes and making the person feel the need to buy … Continue reading
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Blog post 10
One idea I have for a culture jam is the book ban in Florida. Led by a group called Moms for Liberty, books have been removed from libraries and schools. These books contain subject matter that is deemed inappropriate (race, … Continue reading
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Culture Jam Assignment
Here is the culture jam assignment. DĂ©tournement–appropriates and alters an existing media artifact, one that the intended audience is already familiar with, in order to give it a new, subversive meaning. . . . In addition to its instrumental, critical function, … Continue reading
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BP 10 Culture Jamming
I plan to look into making a culture jam about gender roles since we have discussed Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” and its metaphor for the role of gender and identity. Traditional gender roles are often shown in media which can be … Continue reading
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Blog 10
One of my topics for a potential paper on culture jamming is the role of women in the historical period. This topic interests me as we read “A Cyborg Manifesto” by Donna Haraway and the fractured identities portion of the … Continue reading
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Blog post 10
One of my topics for the culture jam is the 2024 US Presidential Elections. The reason I chose this topic is because of the candidates from both parties. Another reason why I chose this topics is because of how in … Continue reading
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BP 10, Due Nov 16
After reading the articles on Culture Jamming, write a blog post where you brainstorm three possible ideas that you think you’d like to make a culture jam about. Make sure to tell us what they are and why. They can/should … Continue reading
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Blog Post #9
The section I want to talk about in “Technological Warfare” is the part where deLeon is describing deLeon wonders if he will see his friends again and if they will be alive or dead. He goes into great detail about … Continue reading
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Blog post 9
In The Border Patrol State, Leslie Marmom Silko writes about growing up believing that everyone had the right to travel freely across the borders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and how that freedom is now policed, especially among … Continue reading
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Blog Post 9
A passage I found interesting in “Technological Warfare” by Jason De Leon was on pages 154-155 when the author is describing the border patrol facility. The description of the facility and agent giving a guided tour is very different from … Continue reading
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blog post 9
In “The Border Patrol State” by Leslie Marmon Silko I found the section about when Silko spoke about the erecting of an American iron curtain at the U.S- Mexico border on pages four to five interesting. Interesting in the sense … Continue reading
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Blog post #9
In Leslie Marmon Silko’s book Border Patrol, the book follows two main characters Irene and Robert, as they struggle to find their own cultural identity in weird timing. The author explorations of identity goes much deeper, as she looks into … Continue reading
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Blog Post #9
“The Border Patrol State” by Leslie Marmon Silko talks about the border region and the regulations on the “border state patrol” placed by law enforcement on immigration which results in the dehumanizing and criminalizing of marginalized groups. From page 4 … Continue reading
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Blog #9
    The reading “Silko Border Patrol” goes in-depth with the author’s realization of border security and borderline. The author presents her thoughts on the development of the border and the unfairness presented. Her experiences as she traveled the highways of New … Continue reading
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blog post 9
In border patrol by Leslie Silko, she discusses how patrolmen abused the K-9. It was a small female puppy. They were upset that the puppy couldn’t find any drugs on the main character so they keep hold the lease on … Continue reading
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BP 9 and Comments, Due 11/9
As we discusse in class Thursday after our Haraway discussion, if you want to revise your BP 8 on Haraway, feel free. It’d be nice if you went ahead and left some comments for your colleagues on BP 8. Please … Continue reading
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Blog Post #8
In Turkle’s “Video Games and Computer Holding Power,” one thing Turkle brought up that interested me was this idea of an altered state when playing games. Turkle states that when people play a video game and enter the world created … Continue reading
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Blog post 8
In Video Games and Holding Power, Sherry Turkle writes that video games have two promises, one is the “touch of infinity”, and the other is the “promise of perfection” (pg. 511). In the video game world, a user has multiple … Continue reading
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Blog Post 8
In “Video Games and Computer Holding Power” author Sherry Turkle explains the positive and negative consequences of video games on users. Rather than first discussing negative consequences, Turkle lists the many positive effects of videogames such as encouraging creativity, sparking … Continue reading
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blog post 8
While reading Haraway’s’ “Cyborg Manifesto” I encountered interesting ideas that was brought up by Haraway. One idea that is touched upon by Haraway is the meaning of being a human being. The “cyborg” as donna describes is partial organic and … Continue reading
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Blog post #8
In the book, Video Games and Holding Power, by Sherry Turkle she discusses the importance of understanding how technology has changed the way we interact with each other and how this affects our sense of identity. She says that technology … Continue reading
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Blog Post 8
I took Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto as a deep dive into cyborg functionality and the cybernetic world. On page 3, it states, “The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal, symbiosis, unalienated … Continue reading
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Blog 8
In reading “Video Games and Computer Holding Power” I found it to be a reading where I got to learn and also put my thoughts into everything that I learned as well. Video games play a huge role in our … Continue reading
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Blog post 8
In Turkle, Video Games, she talks about how video games and computers impacted society in the 21st century. One aspect was addiction, people first get introduced they keep doing it over and over again but that was a myth according … Continue reading
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BP 8 and Comments, Due 11/2
Hey Folks, I’m working on midterm grades and will be putting reports in your dropbox folder. For 11/2 make sure to leave comments for BP7 for your peers on Pratt and Trask. This will count as some of the asynchronous … Continue reading
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Blog post 7
Within the Trask readings the author mentions colonialism, and the process of colonization of the native peoples. In what ways did this misrepresentation of Hawaiian culture facilitate the colonization process, and what were the consequences for the Hawaiian people’s relationship … Continue reading
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Blog post 7
In the piece, From a Native Daughter, Haunani-Kay Trask writes about how she heard the history of her people, first from her parents and then from her teachers, and how those two stories differ. She felt as though she lived in … Continue reading
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Blog Post #7
My question for this class is “if you could change the education system, how would you try to implement the contact zone to combat misinformation as seen in Haunani-Kay Trask’s story?” The reason why I am asking this question is … Continue reading
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Blog Post 7
While reading “From a Native Daughter” I was curious if the spiritual aspect of culture gets lost in written history. I had this question after reading the bottom of page 125, where Trask recounts their grandmother’s description of the land’s … Continue reading
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Blog #7
  In reading “Trask: From a native Daughter” I found myself curious and wanting to read more as I read the first few pages. The connection to this book and the different elements presented from stories to the knowledge presented as … Continue reading
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BLOG POST 7
For Pratt’s Contact Zone, I have question which is how did the Andes community struggle with Bilingualism? Why I chose this question is because of how the Government tried to stop People from speaking Bilingual. I hope learn about how … Continue reading
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Class Discussion Question 10/19/23
Group 3’s question Ashiley Thomas Hanna Taveras Explain whether or not search engines have a negative impact on our culture’s ability to retain information. When Jay David Bolter talks about remediation, he is talking about how over time, media does … Continue reading
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Discussion Question and Remediation Answer
Group 1Â – Kaila and Abraham Is the author’s intention to attract and repulse the reader through their writing effective? Remediation is the transformation from one media to another. The “media” in remediation is referencing the media that people engage … Continue reading
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Discussion question Jetmir/Nino group two
Discuss whether if the alphabetical organization should be valued more than topical organization in the context of the encyclopedia. Remediation within the context of “Writing Space” by Bolter is the repurposing or refashioning of a medium into something new. Printed … Continue reading
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discussion question Group 4 parmbir and sybil
Explain why we as a society should be concerned that shift to digital libraries will leave some printed text behind as previous shifts did, such as the shift from papyrus to codex or manuscript to print. Who decides what is … Continue reading
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BP 7, Due 10/26
Thanks for a good class today, folks. I was happy learning about the Magnavox Odyssey. Thanks, Ashiley! Next week we’re reading Trask and Pratt, both readings are in the right hand column. Please do print them out and bring them … Continue reading
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blog post 6
An idea that stood out to me in Bolters “Writing Space, Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print” was how encyclopedias are a reflection of the time that we live in. In the chapter “Encyclopedic Order” on page eighty-four Bolter … Continue reading
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Blog Post 6
In “The Electronic Book” by Jay David Bolter I found the idea that books are anthropomorphized in western culture (p. 79) interesting. I had never thought about how the outwards appearance of books are their unique visual identity that competes … Continue reading
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Blog Post #6
In “The Electronic Book,” I was fascinated by the author’s explanation of how a book should establish some sort of identity and how it should define its role in a library. (Page 79) Bolter states, “Each book must be different … Continue reading
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Blog post 6
A concept that stood out to me from Robert Coover’s article, The End of Books, is that hypertext doesn’t translate into print (pg. 8). Today many books, magazines, and periodicals have been digitized. Some even start that way and have … Continue reading
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Blog Post 6 + Tech Exploratory Project
Jay David Bolter’s “The Electronic Book”, calls attention to the change in digital technology and defines hypertext as digital writing and moving information digitally in a non-linear way. On page 10 (92), “The computers, storage devices, and communications equipment must … Continue reading
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Blog 6
   In the “ Coover End of Books,” I was very intrigued by the ideas and concepts that were demonstrated and explained in just these few pages. Learning about Hypertext and the different components that it may present … Continue reading
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Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft
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Blog 6
In Coover The end of book, they talk about many concepts and ideas but one that caught my attention was the obsolescent print technology on page 4. The author describes it as likely to engage in major hypertext fiction of … Continue reading
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Blog Post 6, Due 10/19
We have two readings this week you can find links to in the right hand column under Primary Texts. One by Bolter (“The Electronic Book”) and the other by Coover (“The End of Books.”) Please print both of these articles … Continue reading
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blog post 5
Link to draft For this paper, I tried to think of technologies that have changed during my lifetime. There have been quite a few; televisions, public transit tokens, telephones, cameras, and computers. My first 3 choices were the telephone, the … Continue reading
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Tech and Media Exploratory Project – Final Draft
Tech and Media Exploratory Project Final Draft
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Oct 5th revision plan
My draft needs more details. I struggled with this project and had some writer’s block. The biggest struggle was deciding on 3 technologies. I also need to figure out the best way to incorporate McLuhan’s philosophies into the paper.  Â
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Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft
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Technology/Media Exploratory Final Draft
Tech Exploratory Final Draft
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Technology/media exploratory essay
The Shaping of Individuals and Society essay_final draft.docx
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Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft:
Exploratory Final: Tech Revolution
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Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft
ENG 1710 paper 2 final
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Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft Due 10/12
Please title your post Technology/Media Exploratory Paper Final Draft. Make sure to link to it and double check to make sure the permissions are working. See you Thursday!
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10/5 revision plan
My plans for revising my paper would be to make it more cohesive and combine some of my sentences. I also intend to fix my last body paragraphs and make it more cohesive. I speak about some of the intended … Continue reading
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Revision Plan – 10/5/23
I am planning to structure my intro in a way where there is more focus on the direction it will go. I will try to talk more about McLuhan in my intro and I will need to think of a … Continue reading
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