Here's an article I want us to read and be familiar with as we move on from studying television to the World Wide Web. It's called "Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy," and it's by Doug Brent of the Faculty (or college) of General Studies at Canada's University of Calgary. It's a little hard to follow: It's about something called hypertext, which is the kind of coding that allows us to surf from one website to the next. And Brent not only talks about hypertext, he uses it.
Hypertext allows us multiple entry points into a document. Typically we get into it through a search engine, and we follow the links around. But we don't have to read through a website page by page. In fact, we seldom do. We follow the links till we find what we're looking for. And that's different for every one of us.
A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.
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About Me
- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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I'm confused. Is this guy trying to say that the WWWeb is trying to control us and direct to exactly what the web page designer wants? Is he trying to say we are like puppets that do solely what they want?....
I think Doug is saying that hypertext can and cannot be useful.As we follow the multiple entry points into a document is the information helpful to what we are looking for? If not than this would not be helpful.
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