"Developing an Argument in the Digital Age"
Outline and links:
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0. Introductions.
-historical and theoretical contexts
-years, decades of practice: info lit, digital publication, HT
-key shift: social media revolution->environment
-imbrication and William Gibson, or print monographs + Wave
1. digital argument: structure
-unitary aspect
-distributed aspects
a) spatial
hypertextual: disaggregate compontents of argument (summary, review, etc)
supplemental content (ex: books, Juan Cole)
(first note on the general role of politics)
b) diachronic
developed in public
blogging argument over time
-link back to previous items
-use tags, departments to organize
ex: Open Source blog post sequence; In Our Time followup email
ex: "Zombie Economics", John Quiggen (post)
c) synthetic concept: networked book (IFTB) (and check those examples, as of 2005!)
d) secondary or aura of media
-integral with publishing platform (comments, wiki edits)
-different platforms afford this differently
mp3 player vs wiki
cultural expectations
-different levels
i. dependent on your work
ii. associated with your person(a)
iii. housed elsewhere
2. contours of the new environment
consumption and production shift, interweave
-info lit 2010: everything we already learned, plus...
3. the power of storytelling