Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric

24/08/2015

The fan activity known as Head Canon is the focus of this week's blog post on Fandom and Canon:
https://hurban1.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/some-extended-thoughts-on-fandom-and-canon-a-blog-series-post-4-head-canon/

All stories have gaps. That's the nature of narrative and this nature is counter-intuitively enhanced in long-running series. Fans want to know what is happening off-screen, between installments, b...

13/08/2015

Hey DG contributors, the collection has been cleared for foreign reprint for classroom use. I don't know which country but it's still exciting!

08/05/2015

That slide title looks familiar. At a Wizard World Comic Con panel hosted by Garrett Fuller and Genese Davis. According to Garrett, "If you have a smartphone, you have a game device."

03/04/2014

A great deal on a novel by, for, and about, a gamer...

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After her father’s death on a mountain rescue mission, Kaylie Ames watched her family shatter. She fled Tacoma for college in faraway Austin, figuring that even the worst campus drama would be a relief. But when her old friend Elliott turns up on his knees in the grocery store aisle, ravin...

11/03/2014

Just another rhetorical, compelling statement from fandom.

I’ve been very sad this last week. Sad about WorldCon and sad about WorldCon fandom. They got into a very difficult place recently, and instead of coming together as a community many people fractured...

27/01/2014

And another prediction from Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, this time by contributor, Michael R Trice, comes into being.

Ezra Klein’s departure from The Washington Post to Vox Media is just one more example of how digital publishing offers its own thing, not an additional platform for established news companies.

24/01/2014

I haven't had a chance to take a look at this issue, but I imagine Digital Generation fans would find it interesting. http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/new-special-issue-of-digital-icons-journal-on-digital-fandom-and-media-convergence/

Digital Icons, a journal of studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European new media has just published an interesting special issue on Digital Fandom and Media Convergence. The issue can be rea...

20/09/2013

Sigh...yet more evidence of the nostalgia for a "lost" print culture that never existed except for the privileged. I wish my essay in Digital Generation about this (written more than four years ago) was outdated. Apparently not...

In the Guardian last week, Jonathan Franzen published a 6,500-word essay about the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, the societal downfall brought on by an Internet culture that is “pandering to people’s worst impulses,” and also this hot German girl who didn’t have s*x with him in 1982. Franzen blames…

08/09/2013

For those in the Northeast, check out these CFPs for the Northeast Modern Language Association conference in 2014 in Harrisburg. In particular, the third one down (on classical rhetoric) might interest some Digital Generation contributors.
http://nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp_composition.html

The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. Use the site to learn more about us. For more information about NeMLA and its activities, contact [email protected]; to repor...

15/08/2013

Any contributors or fans planning to be at World Con in San Antonio in two weeks? If so, post a comment here and we'll try to get together.

10/07/2013

Spreading the word...

14/03/2013

Digital Generation contributor Michael R Trice presenting on local wikis at 2013 CCCC

22/01/2013

Some musing on (or close to) the third anniversary of the publication of Writing and the Digital Generation.

Three years ago, give or take a week, a box filled with copies of Writing and the Digital Generation arrived on my doorstep as I headed to campus to teach at the start of the spring 2010 semester. ...

13/09/2012

Harald Warmelink wrote about the Eve community for Digital Generation and today that community rallies itself to mourn one of its own.

Sean Smith gave his life in the service of American diplomacy, but, strangely, he also spent much of his free time online entangled in intergalactic political intrigue.

19/08/2012

According to the most recent statement from McFarland, Digital Generation has sold 446 physical copies and 62 ebook versions since its release in January 2010. Thanks to all of our awesome fans and readers!

04/03/2012

If any of our Digital Generation contributors or fans will be at CCCC in St. Louis in a few weeks and want to get together in person, post a note here and I'll see what we can arrange.

12/02/2012

"Consequently, scholars who rely solely on electronic venues to publish their scholarship run the risk that members of hiring or promotion committees will devalue or discount the works."--So, in essence, because the established scholars, who Olson of course doesn't name, don't trust digital projects, we shouldn't be doing them? Clearly, the work of Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric has only just begun...

The Modern Language Association—the principal organization representing the disciplines of English and foreign languages—held its annual convention in January, and while the event was in session, I received calls from a handful of deans and department chairs. They were concerned about a trend they f...

20/01/2012

Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media RhetoricMichael Trice examines yet one more angle to the collection's purpose: the political. As his post observes, "Culture has shifted away from single-sourced, directed media to a more democratic setting. In this space people prefer to be able not only to copy and play with content, but also to discuss the content with one another as peers."

It remains unclear whether the SOPA/PIPA blackout has stopped the legislation for good, but it certainly made the bills' supporters look foolish.