by Jenae Cohn | Aug 2, 2012 | Personal
I’m growing accustomed to that rhythm of a working day. I can predict almost exactly how long it will take me to become quickly distracted (i.e. after my first couple of hours), the point at which my stomach will rumble in the afternoon for a lunch break (i.e....
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 21, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
I am an emoticon abuser. Whenever the situation is appropriate for a smiley face, you bet that I’ll go ahead and include one. This is not something of which I am particularly proud. Granted, the New York Times has justified the existence of our smiling keyboard...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 17, 2012 | Personal
My office is a very quiet place. But for the mechanical gushes of air conditioning that grace the office airwaves on the half hour (I look a lot like this most days), the only other sounds I hear are the click-clacking of keyboards, the gentle shuffle of someone off...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 14, 2012 | Pedagogy, Personal
For the first time in my life, I have a punch card. That’s right: my hours inside an office are tracked. Punch in. Punch out. Present. Absent. Working. Not working. Shifting from a life of complete flexibility and fluidity to one with rules and set hours is...
by Jenae Cohn | Jul 6, 2012 | Digital Literacy, Personal
“You’re going to come running back to academia,” a colleague assured me when I described to her my summer internship working in a Technical Communications department at a company in San Diego. Maybe so. I received a whole packet of documents today...
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 Davis Gaming the Game 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…
