Svenja Adolphs: Introducing Electronic Text Analysis
Svenja Adolphs is an English and Linguistics professor at the University of Nottingham. In her book, Introducing Electronic Text Analysis, she discusses the impact of corpus linguistics on analyzing literary texts. Svenja believes that by analyzing words through corpus linguistics, […]
N. Katherine Hayles, “Electronic Literature: What Is It?
N. Katherine Hayles is a post modern literary critic. She is currently a professor at Duke University and has made many meaningful contributions to the field of literature such as her book “How We Became Posthuman.” Hayles writes in her article “Electronic Literature: […]
Podcast
Here is a link to the website on which my podcast is posted: http://blogs.scu.edu/ipodcast/
Rhetoric of video games
Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critique, and researcher. In his article Rhetoric of Video Games, he discusses the educational part of video games. In his introduction, Bogost describes a video game called Animal Crossing. In this game, the main […]
Writing in the Wild
In Bjork and Schwartz’s article Writing in the Wild, the main topic is teaching strategies effected by the modernization of technology. School work has always been written on paper and has been a material item that can be physically destroyed. Research […]
Designing Visual Language
Visual language might be a confusing term. Most languages consist of letters, words, sentences and phrases which establish meaning in our brains either received through the ears or the eyes in the case of reading. In this case, the audience […]
The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity
Charles Kostelnick starts his article by explaining that “data displays are quintessentially utilitarian in nature.” They seek to “facilitate the reader’s comprehension of the data” which means that they try to make they data display more understandable for the reader. Kostelnick explains […]
Svenga Adolphs
The study of electronic text analysis has recently been growing. Text analysis used to be carried out manually and in many cases the conductors of the study would have to hand count the words being searched for. It wasn’t until […]
Technology Overload and Perspective
Richard Lanham is a widely know author, teacher and doctor. He received his education at Yale University earning an M.A., and A.B. and a Ph D in English. He is very respected in the world of literature for his […]
A Good Man
According to Cato, “An orator should be a good man.” Quintilian talks a lot about the differences between a talented orator intending good and a talented orator intending evil on the world. In order for an orator to be near […]
Persuasive Speaking
Rhetoric is defined in Aristotle’s piece as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” Aristotle describes rhetoric in the court setting using many judicial examples to explain the different forms of rhetoric. Aristotle […]
A Blogger’s Blog
Dana Boyd, a Senior researcher at Microsoft research writes about the similarities and differences of Blogging and Journalism. She also describes what a blog is so several different types of people and the various uses for a blog. I found […]
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