Pete Rorabaugh
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Politicians as brand in "new" and "old" media
I find this kind of use social media simultaneously disingenuous and fascinating. You're absolutely right-- more than any election before, more than Obama's social media campaigns-- we're looking in this cycle at the brand rather than the p ... -
What Defines a Gamer
Ubiquity, is definitely the issue here. As someone who never really identified as a gamer, it always felt like there was a large part of that culture that I just didn't "get" (even though it always seemed interesting to me). I'm remind ... -
Walt vs. The Underground Man
Brian, thanks for reminding me of that moment, which also factors beautifully into Walt as master of process. In it we see Walt, before the acid barrels and the ricin capsules, mulling over the idea of "humanity" from a hyper-rational perspectiv ... -
Time as experiment
I really enjoy the possibilities that your post suggests. On many levels, the show is about experimentation: with the TV serial form, with a chemical process, with ethics, with the aesthetic juxtaposition of humor and graphic violence. You've also ta ... -
New media delivers a new audience
Walking through a careful critique of the artifacts that students are (not always but usually) surrounded by is a great strategy. It teaches several subtle lessons, namely that everything's worthy of critical attention (not just scholarly "texts ... -
Taking it a step further
Thanks for props Kim and Jeremy. I agree that having these assignments (and ones like them) connected together would be a cool project. Might be good for a collaborative Google Doc (at the least), an article for Hybrid Pedagogy, or a conference proposal. ... -
Curation
Your post reminds me of the oft-quoted line from Clay Shirky, that we don't suffer from information overload, but from "filter failure." Teaching students careful and thoughtful web curation is a pro-active step toward the massive openness ... -
This is a useful strategy and
This is a useful strategy and can result in projects that assemble collaborative bibliographies between students, even between different sections. Awesome ideas. Another use of Twitter/Storify are the Twinterviews that we've been doing on Hybrid Peda ...