Ian Bogost on Videogames
Ian Bogost creates “videogames commercially, as well as in other contexts: pleasure, art, exhibition, or research.”
His website contains, among other content, a syllabus for his course on game design and analysis.
Prof. Bogost is also the author of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. In the words of the book’s publisher, Bogost
argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric [and] [...] argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion. Not only can videogames support existing social and cultural positions, but they can also disrupt and change those positions, leading to potentially significant long-term social change.
Table of contents and sample chapter available from MIT Press.
Game Studies
Game Studies publishes scholarship on videogames, primarily on “aesthetic, cultural and communicative aspects of computer games.”
Search the journal’s archive.
Enculturation Special Issue on Video and Participatory Cultures
Enculturation Vol. 8
Table of Contents
Foreword
Video and Participatory Cultures: Writing, Rhetoric, Performance, and the Tube
Geoffrey V. Carter, Saginaw Valley State University
Sarah J. Arroyo, California State University Long Beach
Archive.
Exposing Assemblages: Unlikely Communities of Digital Scholarship, Video, and Social Networks
Alex Reid, SUNY Buffalo
Circuitry in Motion: Rhetoric(al) Moves in YouTube’s Archive
Ryan Skinnell, Arizona State University
On the On-Line Publishing and Re-Purposing of Learning from YouTube
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College
Infrastructure.
Achieving Creativity Integrity: Reciprocities and Tensions
Patricia G. Lange, University of Southern California
The YouTube Gaze: Permission to Create?
Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California
Vulnerable Video: A New Vernacular
Ryan Omizo, Ohio State University
Production.
The Felt of Memory on YouTube
Craig Saper, University of Central Florida
Reculturalizations: ‘Small Screen’ Culture, Pedagogy, & YouTube
Justin Hodgson, University of Texas
The Tactical Tube: Resituating Participatory Video
Joshua Hilst, Utah Valley University
Performance.
Video as Performer: Live Video Interaction in The Dybbuk
Sheri Wills, University of Rhode Island
status update
bonnie lenore kyburz, Utah Valley University
Burke, Kenneth. On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984 Eds. William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna.
Burke, Kenneth. On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows, 1967-1984. Eds. William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003. Print.
Complete text online at UC Press E-Books Collection
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.
Table of Contents
- Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students by E. Shelley Reid
- Composition as a Write of Passage by Nathalie Singh-Corcoran
- Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic by Gita DasBender
- Looking for Trouble: Finding Your Way into a Writing Assignment by Catherine Savini
- How to Read Like a Writer by Mike Bunn
- Murder! (Rhetorically Speaking) by Janet Boyd
- The Complexity of Simplicity: Invention Potentials for Writing Students by Colin Charlton
- Writing “Eyeball To Eyeball”: Building A Successful Collaboration by Rebecca Ingalls
- On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing in First Year Composition Courses by Steven D. Krause
- Introduction to Primary Research: Observations, Surveys, and Interviews by Dana Lynn Driscoll
- Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context by Seth Kahn
- Walk, Talk, Cook, Eat: A Guide to Using Sources by Cynthia R. Haller
- Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources by Karen Rosenberg
- Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills by Randall McClure
- Annoying Ways People Use Sources by Kyle D. Stedman
- Everything Changes, or Why MLA Isn’t (Always) Right by Janice R. Walker
- Storytelling, Narration, and the “Who I Am” Story by Catherine Ramsdell
- The Sixth Paragraph: A Re-Vision of the Essay by Paul Lynch
- Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web by Alex Reid
- A Student’s Guide to Collaborative Writing Technologies by Matt Barton and Karl Klint
- Beyond Black on White: Document Design and Formatting in the Writing Classroom by Michael J. Klein and Kristi L. Shackelford
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Open Source Composition Texts Arrive for College Writers by Robert E. Cummings
- What is Academic Writing by L. Lennie Irvin
- So You’ve Got a Writing Assignment. Now What? by Corrine E. Hinton
- The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer by Sarah Allen
- Backpacks vs. Briefcases: Steps Toward Rhetorical Analysis by Laura Bolin Carroll
- From Topic to Presentation: Making Choices to Develop Your Writing by Beth L. Hewett
- Taking Flight: Connecting Inner and Outer Realities during Invention by Susan E. Antlitz
- Reinventing Invention: Discovery and Investment in Writing by Michelle D. Trim and Megan Lynn Isaac
- “Finding Your Way In”: Invention as Inquiry Based Learning in First Year Writing by Steven Lessner and Collin Craig
- Why Visit Your Campus Writing Center? by Ben Rafoth
- Finding the Good Argument OR Why Bother With Logic? by Rebecca Jones
- I Need You to Say “I”: Why First Person is Important in College Writing by Kate McKinney Maddalena
- Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking? by Sandra Giles
- Wikipedia Is Good for You!? by James P. Purdy
- Composing the Anthology: An Exercise in Patchwriting by Christopher Leary
- Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work by Anthony T. Atkins
- Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk
WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies
WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies
This is a collection of excellent annotated bibliographies on a variety of subjects about writing, teaching, and administration.
National Association of Comics Art Educators
National Association of Comics Art Educators
Teachingcomics.org is the homepage of NACAE (pronounced “nay-say”), the National Association of Comics Art Educators. This site’s objective is to be a resource where the growing number of educators in comic art/sequential art can get and share ideas. It is also hoped that educators who work in other disciplines can use comics as a way of furthering their own objectives.
Darnton, Robert. The Case for Books : Past, Present, and Future.
Darnton, Robert. The Case for Books : Past, Present, and Future. New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. Print.
