Joshua Welsh

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• Commented on Rhetoric Online Chapter 5 : Innertextuality
  Ah. Thanks for the clarification. Sometimes I find it's a pretty thin line for me between "aha" and "well duh." not sure why that is, but I think it's got something to do with the explanatory power of a particular...
• Commented on Intertextuality
  Lindsey, You are definitely on to something when you start thinking a bout how the audience experiences certain texts. We talked about this quite a bit in class today, and how intertextuality only works if the audience can participate in...
• Commented on Let's Hope He Doesn't Find Out About WiFi
  Sorry to posting this a full month late! But yes, I think you hit on good point that one of the really amazing things about the internet is the cooperation it took/takes to build/run it. I would also humbly point...
• Commented on www takes off and Berners-Lee sees success
  Agreed that berners lee is usimg rhetoricvery effectively in this book. I think the boo, does a good job of demonstrating the role that rhetoric plays im technology....
• Commented on Rhetoric Online Chapter 5 : Innertextuality
  Thanks for the thoughful post, Yohanna. I'm still not sure if you mean the article was a "well, duh!" moment, as in, "Do people really get paid to write this stuff?" Or if you meant a "duh" moment, as in,...
• Commented on How Much Does Data Sleep?
  Nick, thanks for the telling critique of the sleeping metaphor. Very helpful. I wish we'd had more time for this in class!...
• Commented on Weaving the Web Blog.
  I love your take on Blum's mysticism. I hadn't thought of it that way at the time, but it could well be part of the reason why the book wears thin....
• Commented on Weaving the Web
  Thanks for the post and the comments. I think you are right that he helped extend the potential and complexity of online rhetoric in ways that we are still figuring out today. Another thing I love about Berners-Lee is the...
• Commented on It's What's on the Inside That Counts
  Sam, thanks for your blog post. To follow up on your last line, I wanted to ask: what makes the internet amazing, if not terrabit hubs or fiber optic cables? Aren't those are the things that make 4G, facebook, and...
• Commented on Reflection on 'Tubes' by Andrew Blum
  Very interesting comments about the need for a physical world. I agree that spending so much time online makes me really relish my time not typing and staring at screens. That's why I like to take notes on paper. BUt...
• Posted Welcome to the 3577 Class Blog! to WRIT 3577 - Spring 2013
  This will be the place for your blog assignments. Looking forward to reading your work! If you are looking for the Public Evernote Notebook for this class, here is a link. -Josh...
• Posted Reflections from Remy Mwamb to Technological Emergence
  Technological Emergence Contributor Remy Mwamb sent us this two part reflection on the project: Part One Part Two...
• Posted Bottom up Globalization: How The Internet Empowers Social Movements to Technological Emergence
  This paper discusses how the internet as a form of new media facilitates social movements.
• Posted What a long, strange trip it's been... to Technological Emergence
  I have so many thoughts and feelings about this project that I think I will make this reflection a series of installments about this experience, which started back in 2009 and 2010 as I planned a trip to Lubumbashi and then made this life-changing visit.
• Posted Pragmatic ICTs for Technical Communication: Aesthetic and Ethical Experiences in Business Philosophy to Technological Emergence
  The goal of this article is to reflect philosophically on the uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in technical communication, which is partly a reflection on my professional experience. This inquiry will be empirically grounded in institutional economics advocated by John Kenneth Galbraith, and it will be philosophically aligned with the pragmatist tradition following John Dewey.
• Posted The Rhetorical Nature of Technology Transfer to Technological Emergence
  Examining the relationships among technology, technology transfer, and rhetoric reveals the fact that rhetoric aids in technology transfer by helping to conceal technological complexity through 'black boxing.'
• Posted Réflexion Sur L'utilisation du Téléphone Cellulaire to Technological Emergence
  De prime abord le téléphone été créer très longtemps pour servir à l'homme en établissant une relation entre l'EMETEUR qui est séparer à l'endroit de réception qu'on appelé dans le langage communicationnelle LE RECEPTEUR de cette relation on établis le feed-back, déjà vers les années 80 le téléphone cellulaire il servait déjà dans le pays développé, car il couté très cher pour les pays en voix de développement
• Posted Aid Work and Technology in Kenya to Technological Emergence
  An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow's decomposing carcass in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border on July 23.
• Posted I am Africa. This is my Story. to Technological Emergence
  Africa youth social community and YouTube digital storytelling campaign
• Posted Recycling and Social Technologies: The Brazilian Experience of Wastepicker Inclusion in Selective Collection Programs to Technological Emergence
  This article discusses alternatives for destination of urban waste, particularly social technologies developed in diverse forms in Northern and Southern nations.
• Posted Global Mapping of Technology for Transparency and Accountability to Technological Emergence
  As internet and mobile phone use increases, technology is transforming the field of transparency and accountability making it an increasingly dynamic space across the globe.
• Posted Neuro Tracker to Technological Emergence
  Neuro Tracker graphs real-time discussions about the neurosciences happening on Twitter.
• Posted Cell Phones, Social Dynamics, Participatory Research in the DR Congo (and Beyond) to Technological Emergence
  The possibilities for mobile technology both at the U and in the DRC.
• Posted Practicing Art and/with Technology to Technological Emergence
  Artist Barbara Nei's work with art and technology began after the September 11, 2001 attacks and the backlash that immigrants felt after that event.
• Posted Distributed Families to Technological Emergence
  Spouses and others in dispersed relationships who must mediate both technology-enhanced communication and inter-cultural communication.
• Posted Video of the Oppressed to Technological Emergence
  Donna DeGennaro shares a video project from the Dominican Republic.
• Posted Resiliant Technologies, Knowledge Communities, and Cultures to Technological Emergence
  How can communities and institutions better withstand earthquakes and help their communities less vulnerable to widespread disasters?
• Posted The Digital Jungle: The Role of GIS in the Sociomaterial Creation of Deforestation in the Amazon to Technological Emergence
  Technology, rhetoric, and deforestation intersect in the Amazon rain forest.
• Posted Ham Radio as Resilient Technology after Natural Disasters to Practicing Science, Technology and Rhetoric: The North/South Divide in an Emerging Global Order
  Just the day after the colloquium and I heard this story on NPR: Ham Radio Volunteers Worry About Spectrum Plan. Of course it immediately made my think of Professor Duque's and Sonya's work on earthquakes....
• Commented on Notes on Practicing Art and/with Technology
  Oh! I'm sorry I got your name wrong. I live near Hamline Avenue, so I guess my fingers filled in what my ears didn't quite hear. I'll correct it above. Glad you liked the event. Check back later this summer--we'll...