Comments for English 109S: Digital Writing

Comment on R12: Call Me, Maybe- What smartphones are trying to sell us by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:12:54 +0000

What an interesting account of the development of your project, Liz! Thanks! This is really a model r12!

Comment on r10: David Carr by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:40:37 +0000

Okay, so I'm going to try this out. In order to say that I've learned about the Curator's Code from Sophie Green, I will write: ᔥ http://curatorscode.org/ ↬ http://sites.duke.edu/english109s_02_s2012/2012/04/07/r10-david-carr/

Comment on r10. “The web is what you make of it” by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:32:38 +0000

It’s a memorable video! “The web is what you make of it” is kind of an open and ambiguous statement, though, isn’t it? I mean, is Gaga creating more dialogue, or just more fans/consumers, or some combination of both?

Comment on r10: Digital Culture by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:26:59 +0000

You know, I had actually read this piece and then forgot about it!—but I agree with you: Gopnik is a smart and entertaining writer. I particularly admire the start of the essay, in which he points out that Harry Potter somehow exists in a pre-digital world. It’s one of those comments that, once made, seems utterly obvious, but yet points to something I hadn’t noticed before.

I tend to favor the Ever-Was side of things myself. You?

Comment on r10: WeWiki by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:23:28 +0000

Thanks, Allison. What do you think of a wiki as a class project? I shied away from it because I get the sense that students often resent group projects imposed from the top down, but it certainly is one of the distinctive forms of digital writing.

Comment on R10: Social Media and Brands by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:18:20 +0000

Some interesting videos, Mollie, thanks! (Although I wish you were able to name them in your post.) I guess my question would be: Are the social media empowering consumers, or manipulating them?

Comment on r10: Using the Internet in the Job Hunt by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:38:25 +0000

There’s also the dark side to job-hunting in the digital era, right? As in all those stories about interviewers asking for passwords to candidates’ FB accounts?

Comment on Becoming More Human by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:29:05 +0000

I thought this was an interesting talk, with a hopeful conclusion but all sorts of worries and warnings along the way. I’m intrigued by the ideas of “ambient intimacy” and “panic architecture,” and it’s interesting that she has pretty much the same concern about a loss of solitude that we all disliked so much in the Digital Divide!

Comment on r10 Black Thought, No Roots by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:16:43 +0000

This sounds like a great conference. But here’s an irony—in this supposedly hyper-connected I had no idea until I just read your post that this event was taking place. Even the Duke Today piece is dated the day of of the conference. Doesn’t give folks much lead time.

It’s also interesting how 2.0 has become a kind of meme or metaphor in its own right.

Comment on r10: Web 3.0 and Google’s Downfall by Joseph Harris

Joseph Harris — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:16:26 +0000

Isn’t Andrew Keen the guy we all loved to hate in The Digital Divide? I hate to sound clueless, but what does 3.0 offer that 2.0 doesn’t? The failure of Google+ seems interesting (remember Google Wave as well?), but I’m not sure where it points us.

I’m not trying to be critical—I get the problems with Google, but I’m not sure what the next steps are (rumored to be).