We’ll check out van Houtryve‘s Traces of Exile. as a class. We’ll also look at the featured story from The New Yorker, “Europe’s Migrant Trail, Through the Instagrams of Refugees” As we look through the exhibition, consider the following questions: What story is van Houtryve telling us with these videos? What does he want his audience to learn… Read More van Houtryve Migrant Trail Exhibit
Templates for Social Media Posts Canva Check out their templates for everything from Instagram to Twitter Adobe Create Cloud Express – More cool templates for creating graphics and presenting Tips for Social Media Check out this piece about Creating Engaging Social Media posts This piece from Team Lewis offers a more succinct list of tips.
I’m back in DeKalb, IL this week visiting a bunch of friends. Two of my dearest friends from graduate school are graciously hosting me and letting me use their WiFi. While I stay in touch with these folks via Facebook and the phone, there is no substitute for sharing a cup of coffee with someone.… Read More Face-to-Face – Accept No Substitutes
Recently, I’ve posted a lot about how social media shames people. In class, my students mentioned that social media creates and perpetuates drama – sometimes in really poisonous ways. In fact, one student is writing her Multimodal Advocacy Project about cyber bulling. And yet, I see ways in which social media and collaborative writing spaces… Read More What reddit Does Right
This week a friend of mine posted about her experience on a dating website. In doing so, she posted screenshots of her interactions with an extremely crude individual on Facebook. She is not alone; see the Instagram account, Bye Felipe. After posting the screenshots, one friend called the guy a “Douche.” My friend responded thusly, “Yeah. It’s a… Read More Social Media Pillory
I subscribe to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify, and a host of other websites that ask me to sacrifice my privacy for their use. They ask me to tag my photos, mark my location, and indicate when they were taken. My browser tracks my searches and pushes marketing materials to me. Yes, I looked on Amazon to… Read More Digital Privacy
I’m currently working three different writing projects with people across the country. I’m currently sitting in a coffeeshop using Facebook instant messenger to discuss an abstract with a collaborator. In twenty minutes, I’m using Google Hangouts to video conference with two other collaborators about a paper we’re giving in May. And, I’m direct messaging on… Read More Long-Distance Collaborative Writing
It’s crazy coming back from a Conference on College Composition and Communication and trying to readjust to the real world. While at C’s, I had the privilege of working at the Feminist Workshop and meeting with women at the Women and Working Conditions Special Interest Group. Women from all over the country in a variety of academic positions… Read More Online Violence against Women
The news is full of stories about young people being bullied to the point of self-harm and suicide. Unfortunately, bullying isn’t a new phenomenon. For example, John Hughes‘s movies (Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club) rely on the tension of the bullied vs. the popular. The big difference today is the constant presences of the interwebs. While… Read More Bullying Has No Boundaries
This week, we talked about what genres do. We had some great conversations about the function of Twitter and other social media. What makes an exemplary tweet? What makes an exemplary Facebook status? I think we realized that a lot of the ways we measure successful rhetoric may not work for something like Facebook because… Read More Facebook and Social Action
Alison A. Lukowski 