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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:  Rachael Scarborough King, Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (2018). Introduction + Chapter 3.  ✏️ 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.    ❀

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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Related Links  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