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Gender, TV and Movies

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on May 21, 2013 - 9:56pm

From http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/21/tv-vs-the-movies-which-d...

Obsolete Media

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on March 19, 2013 - 7:44am

I am working with a local historical site, and of the puzzlers they have in front of them is movies shot on 17.5mm, which was basically 35mm repurposed during WWII shortages.

1. Anyone know how to read this antique?
2. I'm staring at a box with a ZIP drive in it as a write this and wondering: what other media are obsolete or falling that way, fast? And how will that trouble work in rhetoric?

Rhetor in the Media

Submitted by syntaxfactory on October 31, 2011 - 4:39pm

Jennfer Mercieca has been tagged by Bookforum, one of the awesome mass-market public intellectual venues in the U.S.: http://bookforum.com/blog/8542, taking readers to her blog post: http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/10/american-revolutionaries-america...

Of course, her best stuff should have been posted at the Blogora. Sigh.

Great to see a rhetor in the media:

BOOKFORUM TEXT:
Of American revolutionaries and American occupiers

Rhetor in the Media

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Submitted by syntaxfactory on October 28, 2011 - 8:57pm

Joshua Gunn in the Media
http://www.profnetconnect.com/profnetmaria/blog/2011/10/28/interesting_e...

"Halloween is the time of year that conjures up images of pumpkins, exorcisms and ghosts, but what's behind it all? How much of it is real and how much is a Hollywood creation? And what would possess someone to make a career out of those things?

"We sat down with Joshua Gunn, associate professor of communication studies at the University of Texas at Austin, to find out.

Early Media Prophet Is Now Getting His Due

Submitted by syntaxfactory on July 27, 2011 - 12:35am

Early Media Prophet Is Now Getting His Due
By IAN AUSTEN
OTTAWA — By the time Marshall McLuhan died in 1980, the once provocative voice that had propelled him to international stardom rare for an academic had been silenced by a stroke. In his home country, Canada, he had become something of a national embarrassment, often seen as an eccentric at best, a charlatan at worst.

Argument in the Mass Media

Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 26, 2011 - 10:00am

The recovery of rhetoric continues without us, I guess. --db

Begley, Sharon. "The Limits of Reason: Why Evolution May Favor Irrationality." NEWSWEEK August 5, 2010.
Reblogged from Richard L. W. Clarke

Jesuit Conference on Rhetoric and Composition

Submitted by syntaxfactory on June 23, 2011 - 9:10am

June 23, 2011
RSA AFFILIATE FEATURED IN AMERICA MAGAZINE

Podcast for the Weekend

Submitted by syntaxfactory on May 14, 2011 - 11:34pm

MIT CMS:

Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory"
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2011/05/mit7_archives_and_cultural_memory.php

Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms"
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2011/05/podcast_media_in_transition_7.php

McLuhan in Winnipeg

Submitted by syntaxfactory on October 15, 2010 - 9:12am

Here's where I am today. Where are you? Wish you were here! --db

Marshall McLuhan in a Post Modern World: Is the Medium the Message?

Conference LogoThurs., October 14, Fri., October 15, Sat., October 16, 2010
University of Winnipeg

Rhetoricians in the Mass Media

Submitted by syntaxfactory on May 20, 2010 - 9:48am

Rhetor Shaun Treat was on the radio last weekend, CNN radio to be exact, talking about super-heroes. Audio is downloadable here: blog.culturaldistortion.com

I've been on Wisconsin Public Radio as part of a panel to talk about the importance and challenges in addressing the history of lynching in the language arts classroom (http://kuws.fm/Final Edition/Final Edition Feb. 8, 2008.mp3). [End shameless self-promotion.]