- you're selecting between Killingsworth's chapters, so feel free to choose either appeals to place or appeals to time
- we'll be examining/investigating some mediated public arguments, and I suspect that will give us an opportunity to discuss some of your concerns about the Policy Argument assignment (so bring your assignment sheet, of course). I may even ask some of you to talk with us about your ideas for the assignment as they progress. It will be a great opportunity for you to get clarity on the scope and nature of the task before submitting your e-mail proposal to me.
Some of you may recognize the term "hypermediacy" from other readings you have done--or, more specifically, from Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin's Remediation. (David Blakesley, a contributor to Kairos journal, offers a quick gloss of Bolter and Grusin's concepts <here>, including "hypermediacy" among other terms.) To clarify, we're going to examine this concept of hypermediacy to determine whether it has anything to offer us as writers/editors of mediated social policy arguments, as Carolyn Handa argues that it does. We'll also consider whether some of its aspects can be useful even in less explicitly mediated arguments (as in, arguments delivered through alternative media). And finally, we'll bear witness to how certain policy arguments get delivered.
See you Thursday and looking forward to it,
-Prof. Graban
