Procrastadabbler

Ruminations about life, teaching, literacy, research, and anything else I can think of when I am procrastinating

attention

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Weaving in and out of the critique of the new literacies is the concern that forms such as twitter, blogging, IM, email, RSS feeds etc are contributing to the lack of ability among people to attend to lengthy, in-depth texts. The argument goes that we have become so accustomed to gathering our information in bursts [...]

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Privacy in a web 2.0 world

June 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m working on an article about blogging and the break down of public and private space. It was precipitated by a posting I made a while ago in which I mentioned the work of Ben Agger who writes about the breakdown of the public and private in a fast capitalist economy. I haven’t gotten a [...]

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