Highlights, lowlights, links, and a reminder on why “is Communication a coherent discipline” is still a live debate, from the Icon Index Symbol Twitter stream:
Always jarring to remember how much blame Burke deserves for globalized rhetoric. “All social activities… capable of discussion in terms of rhetoric.”
Comm Studies paper critiquing the racialized hegemonic Othering in Geico commercials? And people think academics are obsessed with victimhood!
Sad for “fluid subjectivity” Cultural Studies kids | RT @loisessions: Zuckerberg: “2 identities is lack of integrity” http://bit.ly/9YGZg6
RT @skdevitt: Ahh, the Journal of Experimental Education. Best summed up by the slogan: “whoops!”
Studies on Gen X/Y entitlement & narcissism help clear up how Foucaudian resistance / wishful thinking could ever seem reasonable #nominalism
If I don’t read some academic critiques of Obama’s militaristic metaphors – “fight for shores” “lay out battle plan” – I’m going to be v sad
Memo to Dawkins: if you want to smugly trot out the “obvious answer” you still have to – right or wrong – engage the other side’s best args.
Reading Dawkins on religion feels a lot like reading a ~1999 Usenet post by an “independent scientist” who says he’s disproving relativity.
No more OED print edition. The Internet doesn’t care who you are, or how long you’ve been around http://is.gd/eLDNU
The Battle For The Network Economy, illustrated Risk-style http://is.gd/fIYSA
Kind of brilliant http://bit.ly/aM1vhW (via @loisessions)
RT @gab_div: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” – William Gibson
@StevenLevitt post on @freakonomics unpacking the #iPhone/sex study – subtle – http://is.gd/el21O
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