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Submitted by Jim Brown on October 14, 2009 - 11:29am

The Digital Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas (formerly known as the CWRL and also the entity that so graciously provides server space for The Blogora) has gotten a wonderful facelift. Check out the new website and also check out the new version of Blogging Pedagogy.

Brooke's Lingua Fracta: New Media is not just for the techies

Submitted by Jim Brown on August 28, 2009 - 10:55am

I have been away from the Blogora for too long, and it's time to get back into the swing of things. How about a post that begs you to see new media scholarship as something relevant to your life? Sound good? Good.

An argument for getting and using the "old" equipment

new media

Submitted by Anonymous on June 26, 2009 - 10:49pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/technology/27moon.html

when i taught "radio rhetorics," students used corporate trash (from a behemoth that rhymes with sh-clear sh-channel) to broadcast from a van while driving around austintown. just another fart in the wind. and yet.

maybe something about democracy involves encountering discourses by chance.

the moon? mushier than austin. and just a little farther away.

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Iran, Twitter, and Emerging Digital Constitutions

Submitted by Jim Brown on June 16, 2009 - 8:18pm

As you have most likely heard by now, Twitter is the medium of choice for news about the Iran protests (even the U.S. State Department is relying on it). By using the Twitter hashtag (for the uninitiated, a hashtag is a way to sort tweets) #CNNFail, the Twittersphere has signaled its displeasure with a MSM that was not paying much attention to the events in Iran. Poor CNN ended up being the sacrificial lamb for all of traditional media.

The problem isn't "journalists." The problem is a backwards looking industry.

Submitted by Jim Brown on May 11, 2009 - 8:08am

I was going to write this as a comment to Rosa's post below about George Will and journalism in general, but it kept getting longer...so I thought it deserved a post.

AssociatedPressasaurus

Submitted by Jim Brown on April 9, 2009 - 2:20pm

Brilliant:

In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter warning from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website.

sexting

Submitted by slewfoot on April 9, 2009 - 10:50am

Who could have predicted that type would eclipse speech on the telephone, a device that gave relay to the human voice? Ok, Ong probably could've.

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Facebook Terms

Submitted by Byron Hawk on February 19, 2009 - 9:29am

Over the past month, Facebook redid their terms of service to give them more rights over the content people post to the site. This created quite an uproar in the social networking site and members created a group protesting the new terms. Facebook finally gave in and went back to the old terms. As Michael Moore notes in Sicko, this is the kind of protest that Americans rarely engage in, compared to the French, and the kind of thing that might happen more via the Internet.