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January 19, 2005
Which would make me about 15-20% responsible?
It's about time to crank up the engine here with our first class meeting on Thursday. While we will be focusing on specific texts and issues each week, one of our collective responsibilities this semester is to take a "browse and gather" approach to the course. In other words, it will be very rare that I declare a weblog entry out of bounds, as long as you've made some effort to connect it to the course's terrain.
With that in mind, I offer a short entry from Atrios on source credibility in blogspace. It's something we'll talk about in more depth when we consider network literacies--it's not unusual to find writers who describe bibliographies as prototypical link-networks, and we'll do some of that ourselves. But as I read this entry, I couldn't help but think about how this would change the way we teach research (the core focus of SU's 2nd semester, required writing course)--is it enough (or even ethical) to offer the decontextualized advice of "consider both sides"? What might it do to the dominant "he said, she said" model of mass journalism?
Posted by cgbrooke at January 19, 2005 12:46 AM
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if you haven't checked out the EPIC presentation (although i find that almost impossible to believe), you should. if this (2nd link) is something you want to talk about in class, it might be worth 10 minutes of class time to all watch it.
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
p.s. does "i link it i own it" still apply if i add "i got this from cordell waldron" or some other source-notation to distribute responsibility?
Posted by: tyratae at January 20, 2005 01:39 PM