Invasion of the Information Snatchers: How the Internet Taps into Our Fear of Malleable Identity and Authority — and What We Can Do About It”

Invasion of the Information Snatchers: How the Internet Taps into Our Fear of Malleable Identity and Authority — and What We Can Do About It”

by | Dec 5, 2017 | Digital Literacy, Functional Literacy, Web Culture Musings

As a child, I had a recurring bodysnatching nightmare. In the nightmare, I would be safely tucked into my bed, but I would then sense a glowing presence moving down the hallway that separated the front door to the house from my bedroom door. I would stay frozen under...

Functions and Conjunctions

by | Feb 15, 2012 | UWP 270

I have a confession to make: computers scare me. Admittedly, this is not ideal. I’m working towards graduate work in digital literacy/media studies. Yet if something goes wrong, I’m the first to call tech support, panicked. What am I thinking? And yes, I...

Academic Literacy Summit 2012 Review

by | Feb 3, 2012 | Digital Literacy, UWP 270

What do you get when you put a few hundred K-16 instructors, school administrators, UC Davis faculty, and graduate students all in one room? This isn’t much of a riddle. The answer is (hopefully) obvious. What emerged from conversations between all of these...

Dear Diary

by | Jan 27, 2012 | Literature, Web Culture Musings

I have always been somewhat of a sporadic “diary writer.” Family and friends used to gift me with blank notebooks when they learned that I enjoyed writing, yet I would only write a few entries here and there in each new blank book I received. For whatever...