Category: Electronic Research, Information Rhetoric

“Electronic media have changed the way humans interact with information.
Information is created, exchanged, stored, and retrieved digitally. Marshall
McLuhan has famously said “The medium is the massage” a play-on-words that notes the media we use to create, exchange, store, and retrieve information affects or even determines the content of that information.”
Prof. Nicholas Schiller

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The Miscellaneous Universe of Knowledge: Reflections on ‘The Work of Knowledge’

Reading Response to: “The Work of Knowledge” Shared Knowledge"Discussing differences while standing on shared ground, we work towards understanding." This simple yet profound statement captures the collaborative nature of knowledge creation. Philosophers are often solitary thinkers, engaging in deep and structured reflection. However, conversations bring a unique dynamic. In a discussion, thoughts are less edited, …

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Thoughts on my blog organization

The blog assignment focuses on organizing content into two categories, Classwork and Homework, while navigating the complexities of tagging related posts. Tags serve as keywords linking content and will be refined by observing best practices from other bloggers. The goal is to provide insights on electronic media and information management.

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Reading Response to: “Messiness as a Virtue”

Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we "feel better" when they are fixed up to the original state …

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Class work: lecture notes on Social Knowing, etc.

Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers.  But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …

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Reading Response to: “Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google”

Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for.  As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl.  …

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