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Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Outlining a long post
Tentative Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and stories, the process of which makes them subject those experiences to social discourse, … Continue reading
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Tagged #tbh, brainstorming, collaborate, confession, confession blogs, confession sites, confessional, digital confessional, digital English, digital humanities, facebook, foucault, help, literature, outline, panopticon, planning, social media, twitter, workshop, writing, writing process
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Two Articles on Deep & Long Reading (That’s what she said.)
I was sent Michael S. Rosenwald’s “Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say,” and Steven Poole’s “The internet isn’t harming our love of ‘deep reading’, it’s cultivating it” by a friend who I’m going to … Continue reading
Posted in Annotations, Journal
Tagged annotations, articles, brain, deep reading, digital humanities, digital natives, digital reading, digital studies, e-reader, english, essays, genre, internet, internet culture, literature, long reads, michael rosenwald, middlemarch, neurobiology, neuroscience, novels, reading, scanning, shallow reading, short reading, skimming, slow reading, steven poole, young people, youth
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Electronic Scholarly Editions: Using Electronic Maps to Explore Willa Cather’s Life and Works
Looking around a few different electronic scholarly editions of authors’ works this week, I came across the Geographic Chronology project, which maps American author Willa Cather’s life and travels, in order to think about how they relate to her writing. … Continue reading
Google Ngrams
Thank you, Google! This is such a neat tool, and if I had a project that involved more intensive big data-type research, this would be amazing. Google Ngrams allows you to enter search terms, and then it graphs the occurrences … Continue reading
Review of Dave Eggers’ The Circle
Just finished. I’m still reflecting, and I don’t often write reviews of books right after I finish them–gotta let it marinate. This one is certainly still marinating. But, if I don’t force myself to write it now, I don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Annotations, Daily Create, Journal
Tagged absolutism, annotation, daily create, dave eggers, eggers, everyman, everywoman, female sexuality, frown, hegemony, literature, Mae Holland, morality, norms, novel, relativism, smile, social media, society, surveillance, the circle, values, women
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Thinking about aphorisms and The Circle…
I found this passage that seems relevant in Suzy Anger’s Victorian Interpretation, in which she quotes George Eliot in The Mill on the Floss: All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims because such people … Continue reading
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Tagged aphorisms, dave eggers, digital, irl, literature, maxims, morality, sympathy, technology, the circle, victorian
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