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…

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…

The Legal Rights of Bloggers

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

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…

What is the Internet For?

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

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.

New Media vs Mass Media

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…