Author Archive | Paul L. Hebert (he/him/his)

An interesting article in the Chronicle (although not very in depth) about live tweeting as discussion in a class: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/in-classroom-experiment-all-discussion-happens-via-twitter/40976

This is more personal anecdote than a scholarly discussion, but it relates to the materiality of digital media and was an event that escaped most Western media outlets. Six years ago, in April, there was a large earthquake off the Southern coast of Taiwan that severed almost all of the data cables linking East Asia […]

My readings for other classes this week have emphasized the development of print culture in Western society and its ascendency to the preeminent medium of knowledge dissemination. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about print culture and its very material and political effects on society. Writing made possible the production of the archive as […]