This might not be the most important note/question, but did anyone else think that Willinsky should have started the book with Chapter 10 "Rights"? I felt like this would have set up his philosphical approaches more strongly from the start.
For a brief moment at the beginnning of Chapter 12 "Reading" I was really excited. I thought that Willinsky was actually going to talk more seriously and technically about dialogic reading practices and reading in hypermedia environments. So much work has been done on these issues, and he didn't even acknowledge it (here is one bibliography). I'm surprised, based on his background and list of other publications. I would expect him to be familiar with what is going on in studies of multiliteracies (book by same name), new media studies, and programs in rhetoric and technical communication.
Anyway, just a few thoughts. Am I correct in assuming that it is quiet around here because of all of the ALA festivities?
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Join us for the annual UW Madison summer reading group on information, communication, and society managed by Greg Downey and Kristin Eschenfelder. Let's talk about what we read on this blog. Then let's meet at the Terrace and talk in person. (Email gdowney at wisc.edu or eschenfelder at wisc.edu to become a blog member.)
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- Friday June 22 3pm: Tarleton Gillespie, Wired Shut: Copyright and the shape of digital culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007). [hardcover: $23]
- Friday July 20 3pm: Fernando Elichirigoity, Planet Management: Limits to Growth, Computer Simulation, and the Emergence of Global Spaces (Northwestern University Press, 1999). [paper: $28]
- Friday Aug 17 3pm: Alondra Nelson, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, and Alicia Headlam Hines, eds., Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life (New York: NYU Press, 2001). [paper; $21]
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1 comment:
This definiterly was not a declaration of Derrida-love!
I was thinking about it in terms of the construction of the text. Maybe if he addressed these theoretical approaches from the beginning, he could have then woven them together with his arguments in a way that would have been more meaningful. Placed where it is, it does feel tacked on. Maybe I've been too conditioned to expect the theory chapter earlier in a text, though.
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