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Concepts and ideas and approaches. Some are academic, some aren't. They are here as a repository, a box o' stuff to draw from, look at, and arrange and re-orchestrate as needed. to review and placeCampus Technology, example of PR driven articles http://book.stamen.com/books/ online scrapbooks and notebooks Virtual Kairos: Audience in Virtual Spaces. Kairos 7.3. WikisThese are also in Weblogs and Wikis: WikiReadingsForCourse. [[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/WikiBib.htm | Wiki bibliography]. WikiDesignPrinciples, Ward Cunningham. Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not, Brian Lamb. pdf The Unfixedness of Knowledge: Discourse, Genre, and Mode in Wikipedia, Ulises A. Mejias. Observations on WikiPedia?. Some observations about wikis and writing, Ulises A. Mejias. A good OV that leads to search strategy for analysis of wikis. Cites Weblogs and Wikis. A History and Nupedia and Wikipedia, Larry Sanger. In two parts. Significant for the history and the development of collaborative strategies in wikiwriting. UBC Wiki. Brian Lamb et al. A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email, Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, at Webfoot. Maintained and updated 1995 - 2001. Takes a less prescriptive and more informal and situationed approach to advice than most handbooks. Stands as a good example of the mainstream elements of (informal) effective email. Addresses format (how to handle links to web, page layout (under which it discusses the use of short paragraphs, line length, and terse prose), intonation (use of emphasis, caps, lowercase). Emphasizes (in Gestures section and elsewhere) using rhetorical punctuation in email rather than grammatical: punctuate to indicate how the email should be read aloud (probably trying to make up for lack of f2f intonation signals). (See Baron for the differentiation between rhetorical and grammatical punctuation.) A Critical Look at E-mail, Charles Crawley. pdf. What Corporate America Can't Build: A Sentence Crystal, David. Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. Chap 4: The Language of E-mail. Barton, Naomi S. Alphabet to Email. London: Routledge, 2000. Chap 6 on punctuation, Chap 8, Chap 9. The State of ThingsPrescriptions and advice that seek to shape (and limit?) new media prose. Taking Liberties: The Pluperfect View Strunkenwhite virus. Review of Wired Style, Daniel Kies. Rhetorical Elements in Web DesignArticles and materials that raise and address rhetorical matters in writing for the web and web site design. Some rhetorical theory and some design practice to critique. Personal Web Pages and the Construction of Identity, David Chandler. OV of the genre of personal web pages, appendix lists features to consider in rhetorical analysis of personal web page. Possible analysis model. Who Lives Here? Access to and Credibility Within Cyberspace, Nicholas C. Burbules and Thomas A. Callister, Jr. Paradoxes of the Web: The Ethical Dimensions of Credibility, Nicholas C. Burbules. Web as a Rhetorical Place, Nicholas C. Burbules. Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web, Bernstein Some Starting Points in Web Design. pdf [Troffler: Writing Effectively Online - full version] [Troffler: Editing Online Documents] WeblogsMore weblog material at readings at Blogs and Wikis. Weblog study borrows from other areas of rhetorical study (design, identity). Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog, Miller and Shepherd http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/blogtalk/ Blogging and the eCommunication Paradigms: 10 principles of the new media scenario, José Luis Orihuela. Straightforward listing of 10 shifts from print to electronic/web media. Possible blog analysis method. New Media Theory and PracticeHorn, Robert E. 1998 Visual Language: Global Communication fort the 21st Century. Bainbridge Island, WA: MacroVu?. Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen. Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication. London: Arnold, 2001. Gunther Kress, Gains and losses: New forms of texts, knowledge, and learning. Computers and Composition 22 (2005), 5 - 22. (pdf) Oralicy and Literacy: Technologizing the Word, Ong Social Life of Documents, Brown and Duguid Never mind the tagmemics... Where's the Sex Pistols?. G Sirc. Remediation of a print-version article. rhetoric and visual rhetoricHocks, Mary. "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments," CCC 54.4, June 2003. 629 - 656. (pdf) [links to rhetorical figures and handlists] hypertextWe're taking a fast overview of hypertext at large: elements (node and link), concepts (navigation, patterns and structures), and changes (changes in authority, changes in reading order, changes in author/reader relation). More at http://199.17.178.148/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?HypertextReadingsForCourse Weblogs and Wikis Hypertext Gardens, Bernstein Selections from Writing Effectively Online, Troffler [select links to Nielsen alertbox] Patterns of Hypertext, Bernstein Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy, Burbles. A consideration of the rhetorical use of the link. Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy, Doug Brent. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/storytelling - focus on marketing on the web http://www.nutball.com/dissertation/ The Ballad of the Internet Nutball: Chaining Rhetorical Visions from the Margins of the Margins to the Mainstream in the Xenaverse, Christine Boese. A PhD? dissertation from 1998. [need: handlist of link types] Notes from Kress, "Gains and Losses": readers fashion their own knowledge. |