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Family – Vitia
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Faults / sins / abuses. August 26, 2015. I probably shouldn’t do class-related readings on the NSA and information security right before going to bed. The past two nights have been a combination of first-week anxieties and stuff related to Bruce Schneier’s. And Frank Pasquale’s. The Black Box Society. The latter of which is one of the books I assigned for Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) 356, Electronic Research and the Rhetoric of Information, plus some weird house- and family-related stuff. Https:/...
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preterite – Vitia
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Faults / sins / abuses. From My Cold, Dead Hands. April 3, 2016. April 4, 2016. When I teach first-year writing, I sometimes use the story of Charlton Heston’s post-Columbine NRA speech in Denver as an example of rhetorical. Recently, we were in another such moment in the furor over iPhone encryption. John Oliver did a good 18-minute job. I was dismayed to see James Comey, the Director of the FBI who selected the fight with Apple over encryption, taking what became the government’s public stand....
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Teaching – Vitia
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Faults / sins / abuses. Rationale for a Graduate Seminar in Digital Technology and Culture. October 17, 2015. October 23, 2015. Examines “key concepts, tools, and possibilities afforded by engaging with technology through a critical cultural lens,” and is one of the two required courses for the interdisciplinary WSU graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and Culture. Second, the certificate’s interdisciplinary aspects contribute in rich ways to its digital focus, given its required electives th...
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Academia – Vitia
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Faults / sins / abuses. May Day, 2015. May 1, 2015. May 2, 2015. The girls — Tink, Zeugma, and Tash — are happily devouring their birthday tuna, and it’s International Workers’ Day, and it’s also the day about which Chaucer. The briddes, that haven lefte her song,. While thei han suffrid cold so strong. In weeres gryl and derk to sight,. Ben in May for the sonne bright. So glade, that they shewe in syngyng. That in her hertis is such lykyng,. That they mote syngen and be light. Than is blisful many sithe.
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Good News, Good Projects – Vitia
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Faults / sins / abuses. Good News, Good Projects. April 29, 2015. April 30, 2015. In the fall, as well. In addition to that good news, my Digital Technology and Culture (DTC). 375 (“Languages, Texts, and Technologies”) students presented their final collaborative projects at the DTC showcase last night, and they. Seven teams (who all. Told me it was OK to post links to portions of their projects) did these things:. Http:/ studentweb.engl.wsu.edu/355SP15/rforbes/danna/. Good News, Good Projects. I write h...