Tag Archives: Environment

Ambience and Rhetoric Go Walking Hand-in-Hand

Posted on April 29, 2014 by

Welcome to the final section of reading notes for the Spring 2014 semester. The focus in on Thomas Rickert‘s book, Ambient Rhetoric. So what exactly is ambient rhetoric? How is this different from classical rhetoric? Or the remapping of rhetoric done by the … Continue reading →

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Virtual Ecosystems of World of Warcraft_Case Study #3

Posted on April 13, 2014 by

Literature Review Much of the scholarship surrounding World of Warcraft (WoW) focuses on social dynamics, such as whether or not people are isolated or more connected, gold farming in China, and how Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games can be used … Continue reading →

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The Ecology of the Mindmap Gets Another Update

Posted on March 24, 2014 by

Mindmap: http://popplet.com/app/#/1589875 Ah, ecologies, cybernetic epistemologies, differences, affordances, and perceived affordances. What to add this week to my reframed mindmap? For the mindmap, I stuck to Bateson and Gibson as a way to continually try to contain the behemoth that has … Continue reading →

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