Digital Literacies
Digital Literacies was the second class in the Technical Communication series and was a combination of theory and practice. In this class I read the works of prominent Technical Communication theorists and rhetoricians in order to gain more incite into the ideas surrounding and embedded within tech comm. The works I read included Gunther Kress' The Futures of Literacy: Modes, logics, and affordances, James Paul Gee's New People in New Worlds: Networks, the new capitalism and school, and J. Street's The Schooling of Literacy. I of course read several other articles dealing with technology, literacy, and the like, but I found these three to be the most influential. Shown below are just a couple of the articles I read and wrote analysis's on.
As mentioned before, this class was a mixture of theory and practice. Two projects that were of a particular interest to me were the listserv project and the group literacy project. For the listserv project I joined a scholarly online listserv, took part in their discussions, and analyzed the archives to learn more about the merging of computers and literacy. The listserv was on the Humanist site, an area within Princeton's larger collegiate site, and was primarily composed of a group of liberal arts scholars who communicate on the integration of computers and the liberal arts. If you would like to see the research and my analysis view the link below. The second project was the group literacy project where a fellow student and I worked on a newsletter titled "English or Bust." This newsletter was geared towards the rhetoric of technology and English, the job prospects of English bound college students, and what must be known for an individual to succeed in today's fast-paced job market.
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