Archive for January 20th, 2010

I thought about

1. starting a ning to discuss the readings, but it was too much work for one week and an extra URL,
2. embedding a discussion forum into this blog, but none of the plug-ins seemed to work with this version of WordPress
3. asking you to tweet your responses, but 140 characters isn’t really enough,

so instead I’m just going to ask you to respond to this post with your questions/comments, etc., about the readings last week and I will respond.

Below is the list of companion websites that you’ll analyze to figure out what features and technological needs and wants we might have for the RAW website. You should create your own criteria for analyzing the site based on needs and wants in relation to the “companion website” genre for these books. We will use these analyses to create a baseline list of features to implement in the RAW website next week in class. From there, we will form groups to take on different aspects of the website project. Post your group response (i.e., one analysis per group of two students) as a comment to this post. Remember that your comments will be live on the Internet and that authors could find your comments by searching their names/book titles, so write the analysis appropriately. Analyses are due by 8am next Wednesday. Make sure to put both your names in the post.

• TES
• Virtualpolitik (plus author’s home site: http://www.virtualpolitik.org/)
• Manovich’s Language of New Media (and author’s website w/book-specific site)
• Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
• Scholarship in a Digital Age
• Picturing Texts
• Seeing and Writing
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (with open-access website)
• Diana Hacker
• The Virtual Window
• Compose, Design, Advocate