Yesterday, I gave my colloquium talk for the Industrial Affiliates Program Fellowship that I held this past academic year. Here’s the abstract for it from the colloquium newsletter. (Some of you will recognize it as a riff off of my CCCC paper that John Logie so nicely delivered for me):

Krista Kennedy is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetoric Department. Her project examines the interconnected nature of networked rhetorics and the complications they present concerning textual ownership. Using postmodern constructions of authorship as a terministic lens, she will examine workplace blogs and wikis in order to gain a better understanding of how these digital texts are created. She will also consider the ways their interconnected nature challenges current intellectual property theory and creates a space for copyright complements such as Creative Commons and open source licenses. Hopefully, this analysis will enrich the current discussion surrounding corporate contributions to the digital information commons.

I wasn’t sure how it went, but my advisor reported back that our guest speaker from Microsoft liked it.

Afterwards I took Mister Boyfriend out for a celebratory dinner of cheesy white-people Mexican food, and then we went to Barnes & Noble and grocery shopping. Somewhere in the middle of all that I felt myself coming down with a cold, which reminded me of what happened to me after last year’s colloquium. So I came home, stuffed myself with vitamins, and slept for 13 1/2 hours. I'm feeling pretty chipper at the moment, although a bit discombobulated from having slept half my day away.