This semester, more of my work has been public-facing than at any other time up to this point in my coursework. Unexpectedly, I have become increasingly resistant to writing anything. It was suggested to me that this might be a product of my own pride. I’m inclined to believe the person who said that. It…
This past week I watched a video called “Plagiarism and You(tube)” made by HBomberguy. He described in great detail the strategies that several YouTube personalities used to steal intellectual work from other people. The mix and match of text, images, video, and style was dizzying. The environment described by HBomberguy is a strange one, with…
Odell (2019) says that her book is not to be taken as a weekend retreat designed to create a more productive worker on the other side of the experience. Having read this book for coursework, I began from a place of mourning; I did not feel I had the time to savor this book the…
I stopped posting on social media websites this past summer. Thinking back on why I did so, I cannot really recall why I made that decision; Reddit was going through its latest phase of drama, having to do with APIs. Many subreddits at the time went dark, but in the end, I do not know…
When I think of how often I repair things today as a student of rhetoric, the most recent thing I can think of is replacing a battery in a key fob. Replacing a battery is a relatively simple endeavor, but considering that until the beginning of this very month, I hadn’t owned a key fob…
Han (2022) states that “Today, there are probably very few things to which we would grant… and honorable farewell.” While reading, I have found myself morose and discouraged reading Han’s text on the non-thing, and looking for ways that I resist or fail to fit into his dismal picture of a digitized and data-fied world….
I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about AI and its implications for DEI. After reading Bender et al. (2021), I have come to the conclusion that my attitude towards LMs and digital rhetorics is a fairly accurate one. The digital landscape, not unlike the “real” world, is one where access is broadly…
The other day I was watching video essays on YouTube as I far too often do and I came across a video on the channel Wisecrack called “Algorithms and the Death of Hollywood.” Within the video, Michael Burns notes a malady that has emerged within the entertainment industry and digital media. He argues, particularly of…