Over the course of this seminar, I have established a new theme for LIB 200, which I am tentatively calling Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in New York City. This theme came to be because of three primary […]
I’ve already found myself, as I often do, incorporating my own readings for this seminar and the ideas we’ve discussed into the classroom, primarily into in-class discussions. As I teach LIB 200 during the shorter […]
I’m intrigued by the focus on language, more specifically the culturally situated nature of language. The distinction made by Behrent between the French “technique” and the American English usage of “technology” […]
After reading Portwood-Stacer’s work but before reading this blog post, I found that I too was thinking about the way in which status and privilege provide some people with the means to refuse technology. For some […]
Reading Chapter Eight of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Togther, I was drawn to the stories and behaviors of the individuals that appear here as case studies, though perhaps not for the reasons Turkle intended (if I were […]
