JOURNAL #2
January 15
Porter:
-believes technology has helped.
Our class
believes: 1. Written word does not have to be trustworthy
2.
Technology does not define the writer (skills,ideas)
3.
Different ways of writting allowed him to evolve as a writer.
-Learning how to write is affected by our surroundings.
-Context is important.
-Context of
technologies and their use is key for understanding effects of a technology.
-Technology does
not shape the writer but it affects the writing
(twitter=140
characters. Limited)
Networking is→ Not just for the solo writer
Environments
of people
Changes
distribution and production
Networked
collaboration (ex: Wikipedia)
-networking
changes the pace
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Humanist View
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Post Humanist View
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Binary approach
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An effort to see the body as multiple things
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Human > machine
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Human/technology boundary
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Machines threaten our identity.
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Codependency between technology and humans
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-We are always changing and are made up of multiple things
-Understanding relationships between people.
-View of writing that impacts the audience. Possibility of
multiple effects on society.
KEY TERMS:
1. Interconnectivity (388)- we need a
theory of writing that includes the social, people, writers, audiences, and
society
2. Revolution (+1)(384)- technological
revolutions; difference in technologies make a difference because of the
social- particularly in and for publishing
3. Networking (382)- “real rhetorical
revolution started with networking”
4. Communities of practice (381)
5. Developmental dance (385)- not as a
static set of devices but as a system that includes human/nonhuman technologies
6. Cyborg (cyberwriter) [posthuman] (387)-
a hybrid metaphor that challenges the human/machine distinction
7. Utopian (387)- machines can help us be
better as humans (maybe?)
Video - we learn new technologies in social context
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