Extending from our October conversations and the prompts drafted in class on Monday, October 30, we have the following prompts to choose from for our RIDE Blog Carnival #2. An in-progress draft is due in your Google Folder by Monday, November 13; the entry deadline for posting is Friday, November 17. Approximate scope should be…
Many of the blog carnivals of the 2000s responded to moments and events; I remember them as informal, self-selective with regard to participation, and staggered in time so as to foster dialogue and cross-hatched linking to one another’s entries. Simply, conversations played out. The carnivals that have endured through University of Michigan’s Digital Rhetoric Collaborative…
In Byung-Chul Han’s “Hypertext and Hyperculture,” he ends with the idea that “Re-theologization, re-mythologization, and re-nationalization are common reactions to the hyperculturalization of the world” (10). There is a suggestion that the hyperculturalization of the world will lead to a type of fundamentalism. Considering this was originally published in German in 2005, I feel it…