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Author Archive for Kim De Vries
I've been teaching rhetoric and writing for about 15 years. My classes generally include undergraduate composition and graduate classes in rhetoric and/or teaching composition. I'm interested in teaching courses that explore rhetoric and issues of identity: gender, race/ethnicity, class, especially online. I also teach non-western rhetoric and am developing several courses in digital rhetoric and new media; I feel it is especially important to teach graduate students, future teachers, about these topics. My research interests include transnational literacies, comparative (and contrastive) rhetoric, new/digital media, online communities, and identity studies. Most recently I've been studying the institutionalization of new media in the Netherlands, particularly the impact of gender. If you visit my research blog and look at all the posts tagged book project, you should get a pretty clear picture.
Sample Proposals
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
Here are several proposals I have successfully submitted for conferences. They may be helpful examples. Desire, Dissent and Differentiation: Sustaining Growth in Virtual Networks — New Network Theory 2008 Many if not all virtual communities have been spawned out of…
Critiquing Matthew Hindman’s “The Myth of Digital Democracy” | techPresident
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Last night political scholar Micah Sifry debated Matthew Hindman at Yale; prior to the debate he published this preview of his response to Hindman’s article. He challenges Hindman on both his generalizations, and his neglect of technologies that don’t fit…
Internet Communities
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
Another gem from XKCD….
Viral Video
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When people talk about viral videos, memes, and such, they mean videos or more generally ideas that spread (especially online) as if they have a life of their own. This video by Anthropology professor Mike Wesch was originally put online…
What Really Happens When You Contact Tech. Support
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This is a brilliant post by one of my favorite web comics, XKCD. This one is #627.
Interesting and Useful Websites
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There are any number of websites that might enrich our understanding of how technology, new/digital media, and the internet are affecting our lives. Here are a few of them: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, from Frontline. According to…
Getting and Giving Feedback, some general guidelines
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Helping other students to edit their papers can be a tremendous help to both parties. You will find that your own writing improves as you notice strengths and weaknesses in your peers’ writing. Here are some steps to help you…
Possible Tools
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Social Bookmarking Tools These websites allow you to create online bookmarks that you can annotate, tag, share, and sync with your web browser. Further and even more usefully, you can explore the webpages other people have also tagged; for example…
Personal Use of Tech Narrative
by Kim De Vries • • 11 Comments
We have been talking about different uses of technology, how it relates to literacy, and the way it impacts our lives in helpful or detrimental ways. You have been writing about how you use technology, and have been gaining more…