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session notes

Reminder: Election Day is in two weeks. Are you all set up to vote?

Also: it’s time to begin setting up meetings with me to discuss your final project.

Visitors: Lucas McMahon and Abigail Sargent on “Mapping Medieval Metadata,” a project that maps lead seals used to enclose correspondence and assure the recipient of the genuineness of the contents in the Byzantine Empire.

Before Class 📚 Read:  Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User (2020)  Introduction Chapter 3: Visibility Chapter 4: Sharing Closing: End User   Samples of a Byzantine letter and an administrative document, in advance of Lucas and Abigail’s visit.  ✏️ Write:  answers to these #response-questions:  There are so many wonderful descriptions and examples of community in Lurking. What was one of your favorite and why? In Chapter 3: Visibility, Joanne McNeil identifies a shift from the 1990s-2000s “dream of cyberspace [as] expanding interiority,” to the 2010s “dream of visibility on social networks [as] something more like fame” (85). How do you understand this shift? What is the relationship between the rise of the “user” McNeil showcases throughout the book, and the drive toward fame?    ❀

Practicum Explore correspondence in Early Modern Letters Online.

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Related Links on the trend toward social media “groups”  Nina Jankowicz, “Facebook Groups Are Destroying America, Wired, June 17, 2020 William Davies, “What’s wrong with WhatsApp,” The Guardian, July 2, 2020  theories of digital correspondence  Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet, esp. chapter 1 and 6 Milne, Esther. “Email and Epistolary Technologies: Presence, Intimacy, Disembodiment.” Fibreculture Journal, no. 2 (2003). Milne, Esther. Letters, Postcards, Email. Routledge, 2013.