Top Terms for Literacy from Convergence Culture

Blogging

So what do we make of blogs?

Interface Culture

Very nice notes tonight on interface and culture. Interface is a pretty interesting concept that became especially obvious relative to texts only after it was applied to the world of electronic texts and the windows into them. (K. Hayles has made this point repeatedly: the materiality of one kind of text helps us understand the materiality of another.)

For some (short) additional discussion of this, see the link below.

For additional discussion (if you *really* like interface), see Anne Wysocki and J. Jasken in the 2004 anniversary issue of Computers and Composition. Good news: you can get to it online in the library.

Not least, if you want to see an interesting combination of interface culture and convergence culture, take a look at the MIT Press website where Hayles' Writing Machines is available. You'll see that you can purchase a "web supplement," which is identified as an "extension of the book": "the Web Supplement includes the lexicon linkmap, scholarly apparatus, and offers alternative mappings of the book's conceptual terrain with functionalities unavailable in print." For free, you also can view a text they call a "webtake," which is a Flash-based commentary on the limits of the book as a form. Here is the link:

http://http//mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/mediawork/mediawork_about.html

http://http//webstyleguide.com/interface/web-conventional.html

Case Study of Remediation/Circulation

Looking forward to reading them!

Convergence 2: Writing as a Material Practice

Convergence 2: Writing as a Material Practice

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/arts/design/14cott.html

A discussion of collage and poetry as materially related forms and inventions.

Texts and Contexts: Books and Libraries in the Early 20th Century

Many of us think of books and libraries as "natural," but as recently as the 1930s and 1940s and into the 50s there were campaigns encouraging people to incorporate books into their lives and libraries into their routine stops. The idealized family read together, of course.

Quotes from Remediation (Sept 15)

Due September 15:

1. most provocative quote;

2 why/how provocative;

3. connection to any educational or scholarly experience and explanation.

Now, the first person posting will have virtual "carte blanche" since no one will have posted yet. Those who post after the first will have an additional task: connect your response to that of at least one other person, and multiple connections are welcome.

Likewise if you want to link to something outside of this particular blog, do:

for instance, http//www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev9/r9kir.htm ,

is a review of the book you might find useful. Or not? ;)