-
Search
-

Get my book at Southern Illinois University Press, The NCTE, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Powell's Books, Politics and Prose, or Square Books.
Reading
- For-Profits Spend Heavily to Fend Off New Rule
- Astroturf U: Goldman's For-Profit College Battles Obama Crackdown
- Higher Education Issues
- Top 25 Online Schools in 2010
- Virtual High School Opens 'Doors' to Learning
- First Report From Research Center Created by U. of Phoenix Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education
Recent Comments
-
Recent Posts
-
Links
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Instant Literacy
I enjoyed this piece on Read Write Web ("Do Kids Read Blogs? New Study Aims to Confuse") becuase it does a great job of talking about the various ways that a survey can be designed and or manipulated to make the points that you want to make. In this case, it's BlogHer and iVillage 's apparent desire to make blogs seem younger and so, presumably, more marketable, than what was recently reported by Pew Internet. What I find most interesting, though, is the way these debates illustrate the role of consumerism on new communication technologies.
In a general sense, blogs became the "thing" a few years back and as such were used to illustrate that these new technologies...
Posted in Language, Online Places, Professional Comments closed

Avett Brothers: Talk on Indolence