Category Archives: Network(ed) Rhets

All of us in NetRhets spent a couple of weeks reading Duncan Watts’ Six Degrees earlier this semester, which works through the formation of his contribution to network theory. Most everyone knows the six degree theory, thanks to Six Degrees … Continue reading →

(Previously posted to Network(ed) Rhetorics, whose audience is less IP-centric.) Reading through Urban’s The Once and Future Thing (nicely summarized by Derek), I was struck by how useful this might be for part of my intellectual property research. Then I … Continue reading →

(Initially written for Networked Rhetorics) Back in early February, I sat on a panel with Dan Gillmor as he positioned blogs within the proverbial “long tail.” With the influence of bloggers on mainstream journalism, he says, the tail has begun … Continue reading →

For the past two weeks, the Network(ed) Rhetorics class has been reading and discussing Duncan Watt’s Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. I’m poking along behind everyone else since I’m still not up to speed with my reading. … Continue reading →

This week’s NetRhets topic is network literacy, which inevitably leads to some discussion of identity. Miles and Yuille list it as #5 on their Creative Computing Manifesto: 5. inside the network Network literacy is the ability to engage with and … Continue reading →

Over on the Networked Rhets blog, there’s been all kinds of discussion about blogs and genre. (My colleague Clancy also wrestled with this topic a while back.) I’ve been thinking about blog classifications a bit lately as well, since they … Continue reading →

First up on the Network(ed) Rhetorics reading list is Lilia Efimova’s post, Blogging as Breathing, a response to discussions at BlogWalk Umea. I was fascinated by the answers to this question, particularly Ton’s post that she links to (which I … Continue reading →