I’ve realized that Eagleton’s Intro to Literary Theory is heavy going for my 3150 students. Thankfully a couple of them took it upon themselves to tell me they were having trouble. Thank you! This page from the Internet Encyclopedia of…
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.
Site updated again…
by Kim De Vries • • 1 Comment
So I changed the theme again. The previous theme simply wasn’t functioning as expected and the theme-author’s website didn’t offer enough info for me to fix things myself. So I am trying this new theme. It doesn’t have everything I…
Borges — Language, Reality, and Media
by Kim De Vries • • 14 Comments
What are your most important questions about the Borges pieces we’ve looked at? What are the most important ideas generated for you by those pieces? Add your thoughts below as a comment.
The Legal Rights of Bloggers
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a useful page outlining the legal rights of bloggers, answering FAQs and linking to detailed info, exemplary court cases, and other resources. This page is worth a look for any blogger, but especially…
Snack Wrangling
by Kim De Vries • • 9 Comments
Please refer to the class schedule and in a comment here, tell me which day you’d like to provide food and drink–each date will have 2 people. 9/24 Kim and Mike 10/8 Nobody 10/22 Alex Janney 10/29 Ryan and Mariana…
Installing and Using a Chat Client for IRC
by Kim De Vries • • 5 Comments
To meet in a chatroom, everyone in class will need to install a “chat client.” This is a little program the will connect to the chat, show you what people are saying in one window, and allow you to add…
What is the Internet For?
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Look at the argument you made about the internet for today’s class. Compare it to the three models of arguments and decide which it resembles most closely. As a group, compare your arguments and see what ideas and evidence you…
English 5010 Student Blogs
by Kim De Vries • • 12 Comments
You are all setting up your own blogs, joining the people who contribute content to the web rather than just consuming it. You have become “prosumers” or “produsers.” Welcome to Web 2.0! From a presentation by Axel Bruns.
Test Post for 5010
by Kim De Vries • • 1 Comment
Here is a post illustrating how quickly one can add a web page with a blog.
New Media vs Mass Media
by Kim De Vries • • 9 Comments
Excerpted from Robert Logan posting on PBS/MediaShift One of my objectives in updating Marshall [McLuhan’s] work is to identify the characteristics of new media and contrast them with the electronic mass media that McLuhan dealt with. Given that the medium…