Note: due to Fall Recess the preceding Monday and Tuesday, there will be no synchronous meeting this week. We will still check in remotely via the class Slack.
Before Class
📚 Read:
✏️ Write:
- a letter to your classmate
- answers to these
#response-questions:
- Rachael Scarborough King defines a bridge genre as “a genre that facilitates change by providing writers and readers with paths across shifting media landscapes. Bridge genres connect old and new media: they transfer existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition and circulation, a function that provides stability and continuity during what are otherwise times of fluctuation” (2). What is one example of a relatively recent (1990–2020) bridge genre?
- King explores an eighteenth century distinction between print as a “masculine” medium and the handwritten letter as a “feminine” genre. Describe one feature of this historical, cultural construction.
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Practicum
Download and analyze all the text messages on your phone, part 2. Continue working on this one and discuss your results in the #practica Slack channel.
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- Subtext podcast, hosted by Sarah Ellis and Michelle McSweeney. “Relationships are confusing, especially when they’re digital. What did she mean by putting a period? Why did he wait so long to respond? We’re here to talk about your toughest texting questions (and share a few stories of our own).”
- Bernhard Siegert, Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (1999)
recent novels experimenting with texting
- Hitori Nakano, Train Man: The Novel, written entirely in text messages