Rhetoric 3371 Spring 2007
Technology, Self, and Society
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Final posting
"Comfort" –Aldous Huxley
“Facing the Facebook” – Michael Bugeja; “A Dad’s Encounter with the Vortex of Facebook” – Michael Duffy
“Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Site” - Danah Boyd; Daily Show clip
“20 Days Without a PC” – David Lake; "Distractions in the Wireless Classroom" - M. Bugeja
"Doing What Came Naturally: The Home Computer" – Merritt Ierley
Film questions
“History of Motion Pictures” – Robert Sklar
“How Americans Use Their Cell Phones” –L. Rainie, S. Keeter; “The world's a cell-phone stage” - Ryan Kim
“Mobile Telephony...” – Imar de Vries
Alone in the Wilderness
“A Room of One’s Own” – Michael Pollan
Mill City Museum
America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapters 5 & 6
Electricity
“Hoover Dam: A Study in Domination” – Donald Worster; “Hoover Dam” (Bureau of Reclamation website)
The Alaska Pipeline; "Nature Devastated" - Donald Worster
The End of Suburbia
“Industrial Tourism and the National Parks” – Edward Abbey
“The Car and the Road” – Alexander Wilson; “Roads Belong in the Landscape” - JB Jackson
"Automobiles and Automobility" – Ruth S. Cowan
"Sounds" – Henry Thoreau
America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 8
America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 7 (152-173)
America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: chapter 7 (147-152)
“Transportation Revolutions” – Ruth S. Cowan
America as Second Creation – David E. Nye: Introduction and chapter 1, 2
"Technology and Happiness" – James Surowiecki; “Invention’s New Mother” – Chuck Klosterman
"Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?" – Leo Marx; "The Technological Imperative" – Lewis Mumford
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley: chapters 1-5
"Shopping List for a Desert Island" – Tom Neale
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"Comfort" –Aldous Huxley
“Facing the Facebook” – Michael Bugeja; “A Dad’s Encounter with the Vortex of Facebook” – Michael Duffy
“Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Site” - Danah Boyd; Daily Show clip
“20 Days Without a PC” – David Lake; "Distractions in the Wireless Classroom" - M. Bugeja
"Doing What Came Naturally: The Home Computer" – Merritt Ierley
Film questions
“History of Motion Pictures” – Robert Sklar
“How Americans Use Their Cell Phones” –L. Rainie, S. Keeter; “The world's a cell-phone stage” - Ryan Kim
“Mobile Telephony...” – Imar de Vries
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