by Jenae Cohn | Jun 26, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
How do you think Fyodor Dostoevsky would react to Google Docs? Do you think he would embrace the collaborative writing tool or instead remain invested in the Enlightenment individualism that accounts for much of contemporary writing practice and thought? Google gives...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal, Uncategorized
“Wait, wait, what is it that you highlighted? Do I click here?” “Do I need to get the YouTube BEFORE I make the post?” “Hold on: what are you doing exactly? What button did you press?” These are questions I hadn’t thought...
by Jenae Cohn | Jun 18, 2012 | Personal, Web Culture Musings
I’m not used to waiting for things. I would wager to say that most of us who grew up in the digital age are not used to waiting for things either. Information is rapid, instant, and instantly gratifying. Given this fact, it is easy to forget how much labor goes...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
How might tweaking, modding, and hacking practices alter the changing technopolitical climate? Questions like these are spurring some of the central discussion happening at the UC DavisĀ Gaming the GameĀ conference this week! Primarily focused on the theoretical...
by Jenae Cohn | Apr 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
Imagine how THESE will change the future of reading and writing on the Web! This is just a quick post (Derrida awaits), but I thought this was worth sharing…