8121: from soundscape to mediascape
My favorite reading this week has got to be Khun’s “The Rhetoric of Remix” for two reasons: 1) the fan vid “Closer“; 2) the article makes the clearest case I’ve yet read for the study of “remix” as most appropriately province of Rhetoric and Composition.
8121: Week 9, The Sound of Grouchy
Of course this week’s readings contribute much to our discussions of the effects of digital media (dm), the ways dm reflects and shapes how we think and behave. In fact one of the most memorable and necessary ideas emerging from the readings for this course appears here, I think, in Cindy Selfe’s “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning.” Here she paraphrases Patricia Dunn:
8121: Ball’s “Show not Tell” and Hocks’ “Visual Rhetoric”
C.E. Ball’s article argues (to traditionally-minded academics who consciously or unconsciously denigrate new media texts’ potential for “true” scholarship) that new media scholarship—that is, scholarship written as new media text, not necessarily about new media—deserves to be valued. She identifies a “gap” between what new media scholars say and what they do (409). In order to establish an ethos within the academic community, they publish (as Ball is doing, and she notes the irony) in print-privileging journals. She notes, too, that new media scholarship requires authors to “[cross] so many disciplinary and departmental boundaries, which makes it necessary for scholars to show colleagues across fields that one can work in new media (and not just write about it)” (407).