Category: All blog entries
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How the Irish Became White
I’ve been reading Krista Ratcliffe’s Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness for another class (English 483: Studies in Rhetoric and Style) and stumbled upon her interesting discussion of race. She defines it as: “a fictional category possessed of all-too-realistic consequences” (13). This seems to jive with previous discussions of race on…
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Presidents, Star Wars, and Harry Potter: Convergence
It’s been a while since I’ve given serious thought to the convergence of media, but Henry Jenkins strikes me as someone with a pretty good understanding of it. Jenkins points out right away that “people today talk about divergence rather than convergence, but (Ithiel de Sola) Pool understood that they…
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Decentering medical authority (and other topics) in Lisa Nakamura’s “Digitizing Race”
I was so excited to find Lisa Nakamura’s chapter entitled “Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web.” Nakamura examines how pregnant women portray themselves (or ask others to portray them) on sites where cartoonish “dollies,” or avatars, are used to represent community members. She notes that the…
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A rant on the visible rhetoric of the comma
This post is just what the title says: a rant. It was really bound to happen at this point in the semester as everything is coming due at once and students begin to realize how much they have left to accomplish with just 2.5 weeks left. I’m in that position…
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On (dis)ability
Of the readings we did for this week (cited below), the one I found most helpful was Jason Palmeri’s article on technical communication pedagogy. In addition to offering a new perspective on disability studies, Palmeri provided constructive ways to help others learn about this field as well. After providing several…
Erin Anne Clark 