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1)lindsayp said...
February 3, 2011 8:30 AM 
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March 31, 2011 9:17 AM 3)lindsayp said... (Cyberculture rhetoric)May 5, 2011 9:12 AM
4)lindsayp said... (Barbara's Cyberculture Blog)
May 5, 2011 9:27 AM 5)lindsayp said... (Jennie's Blog)
May 5, 2011 9:31 AM 6)lindsayp said... (Blake Mankin)
May 5, 2011 9:34 AM 7)lindsayp said... (Anthony's Class Blog, 03/28)
March 31, 2011 9:10 AM 8)lindsayp said... (Sean K 330C)
May 5, 2011 9:44 AM 9)lindsayp said...
May 5, 2011 9:47 AM 10)lindsayp said... (Junqin Li)
May 5, 2011 11:52 AM
1)lindsayp said...
You point out that people can simply resign from resources they don't find appealing, and I really agree with this point... but I wonder about taking it to the extreme, what about information that slanders a person's reputation or exploits them?
I think that people, in the least, become more aware of civic issues by participating in online communities. Ignorance fuels the flames of hate, but online resources afford us the opportunity to share our ideas, if we are willing.
I find it interesting you correlate efficacy of a comment with grammar, because many rhetoric teachers I have met did not believe the same. They have argued that proper grammar is not important if the argument is well developed. Perhaps it is only glaring grammar errors that you are referring to.
I had never heard of this site, but doubt I would be inclined to sift through a bunch of amateur's opinions to find gold. However, it would be a nice resource to seek if one tires of the movie commentary that is motivated by monetary incentive. I wonder how this site compares to Rotten Tomatoes, a personal favorite of mine!
I had never heard of this site, but doubt I would be inclined to sift through a bunch of amateur's opinions to find gold. However, it would be a nice resource to seek if one tires of the movie commentary that is motivated by monetary incentive. I wonder how this site compares to Rotten Tomatoes, a personal favorite of mine!
4)lindsayp said... (Barbara's Cyberculture Blog)
I think it's a great project for fun, just another obsession for fans to fulfill in real life. I imagine myself working with my father in our backyard to make fairies that fly after watching Fern Gully, but I doubt these projects are being taken-on by a father/mother-son/daughter duo, and wonder what lives these people lead that they can spend multiple hours and countless amounts of cash to create these robots in real life. Doubtlessly though, it contributes to progress and robotics, and who I am to tell people how to spend their precious time and money anyway?
I think people in this class are freaking out about the loss of privacy to too much of a degree. I mean, there has been technology to invade our lives for years now. Alternatively, if someone really wants to know where you are, they can easily follow you around. In some cases, I think the loss of privacy can be a really good thing: finding lost children, finding a body, etc. I don't doubt it could go awry though, but it only starts to disturb me when such things are admissible in court and overwhelm the need for search warrants. I simply think we need better and more appropriate laws to keep up with the technology intruding on our lives.
I shudder to think of my peers in junior high and high school grading my work, because I wasn't the most popular student. I think students are too entrenched in social issues and pressure to objectively grade their peers. This system could easily lead to more effective bullying, because then it would actually impact that student's future. Sounds like a way to take pressure off of the teacher grading papers. I think it would be better to have input, in paragraph form that the teacher then processes into a grade, but even that could lead to the disadvantages I previously mentioned. I am feverishly opposed to this idea.
I definitely saw the race gap between myspace and facebook (my high school was more diverse, while UT is not). Therefore, it was a convenient age gap that hid the race gap. I wonder if the same is not true for many others, because it is unlikely that the high school attended is less diverse than UT (which is hardly diverse at all). I don't see how the writers of the articles could expect people to participate in communities they do not already belong in. I think that this is an issue that starts offline, that people could then address and integrate into their online interactions.
I really like this post because I have a similar fear. After reading a wide variety of arguments progress on PassiveAggressiveNotes.com I realized how much the internet spurs misunderstanding, and consequently--conflict. Who we were is still who we are, and there is no way to delete that. Something said in anger is too easily posted up on the web for all to see.
The other issue, is that posting online naturally fosters more misunderstanding because it exists devoid of expressions. I find myself using exclamation points like salt because I am concerned someone will read my tone as negative or abrupt.
I am at a loss for how to repair this issue, my only response has been to become less involved with online correspondence, especially publicly.
The other issue, is that posting online naturally fosters more misunderstanding because it exists devoid of expressions. I find myself using exclamation points like salt because I am concerned someone will read my tone as negative or abrupt.
I am at a loss for how to repair this issue, my only response has been to become less involved with online correspondence, especially publicly.
I really like the idealized version of this idea, but wonder if it will lead to battles of wits. Well, perhaps even that would be productive in achieving the end goal. I especially like the idea for academia, as you mentioned, papers are graded so objectively, but with already stressed work-loads, how could a teacher endure an even more lengthy process. How could a surgeon put a dying patient on hold to consult? Time is of serious concern with implementing this type of reform, but I think in some ways it could be really helpful.
I don't think it is possible to link an absurd joke with something/someone a group of people widely respect. This is clearly open mockery (not unjustified) which I doubt many members sensitive or sympathetic with Bin Laden would find the humor in. This is, however, a bad example for trying to converge two cultures. My point was, that we should seek to unify things which are conducive to the other, and not seek to create a collaboration between entirely opposing issues, because most of these things cannot be reconciled. The more divergent the opinion, the more strong the opinion, the harder to communicate and reason with.
