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Bogost discusses how most news articles discussing the 2007 merit-based green card proposal in the U.S. Congress cut and pasted examples of how the system would function from press releases.

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Within assemblage theory, agency is dependent on the kinds of relationships that are formed between different elements.

In a multiplatform environment participation and agency can happen in more subtle ubiquitous ways; it happens through practices like using the Foxtel Go that transforms computers, tablets and phones into television sets.

it is also becoming increasingly multiplatform by spreading its content across different devices and platforms that encourage viewer participation.

For example, a viewer who personalises their news to receive only business news or entertainment news misses out on hard news and is not exposed to a mixed diet of news sub-genres

Furthermore, Bennett and Strange point out that customisation and personalisation technologies that enable viewers to select programmes according to personal taste

As a stable structure, broadcast television may not offer the personalisation and customisation features that digital television does, however it possesses some very important functions. By addressing a mass audience, it facilitates a sense of nationhood and enables the spread of important information

viewers to become schedulers

With their simple content and amateur production standards, LetsPlay channels have very rudimentary aesthetics that challenge the broadcast/network model.

Even the name given to these channels ‘LetsPlay’

Their hybrid nature puts into question television’s ontological status and the idea that it is a stable medium. While I agree with Uricchio who argues that historically television demonstrates a propensity for change and that different models of television have always existed, I would also suggest that examples like LetsPlay channels signal that digital technology has considerably increased the number of different forms of television and the rate of change.

Go behaves as an agent that enables new viewing practices by forming connections between different parts of the assemblage including viewers, industry, texts and related technology.

effect logic toward a multiple determination.

This signals a shift in how television is viewed; live television can now be viewed without the need for a television set.

It enables computers, tablets and phones to do what just a few years ago only the television set could do

One of the most interesting aspects of Go is that it incorporates a number of functions that were previously distributed amongst different technological devices such as the television set, the remote control, the set top box, and the Personal Digital

television has always been a hybrid medium

If we understand multiplatform television as an assemblage that is constantly forming new connections between viewers, texts, technologies, polices and practices, we can imagine a virtual realm full of possible outcomes. However, it is difficult to predict which will be actualised and which will remain in the realm of the virtual. This sense of contingency and chance means that social and cultural television formations are open to the new and unthought rather than limited to fixed relations.

exploring emergent properties.

binaries and hierarchies such as production/consumption, producer/audience, industry/consumer and even technologies/text.

Tamsin Loraine uses the example of a tree that might be comprised of tendencies toward bending and falling

These processes also affect how agency operates within an assemblage. Firstly, agency cannot be attributed to any one component or actant, human or non-human but emerges from the association of different parts. It is intrinsically tied to the kinds of connections that make

Processes of territorialisation can over-code an assemblage by giving its parts fixed roles and meanings and by producing a closed unified structure with a central point of power and signification

Unlike fixed structures that always act in the same way and produce the same outcomes, assemblages introduce new possibilities.

with binary relations

As old connections disappear and new ones form, it changes quantitatively, in terms of the number of connections it has:

Although this mode of theorizing provides a basis for prediction and thus for intervention and rational governance, it falls short in accounting for change

It also allows us to consider how agency is reshuffled, as new connections are formed between new kinds of devices, texts, practices and applications.

As Goggin notes assemblage theory ‘questions the constitution, production, and reproduction of the social, pointing to how particular objects suggest different conceptions, ordering and politics

Keilbach and Stauff have a similar issue with the framing of television as a stable medium.

For Joke Hermes television and television viewing is so vastly different than it once was that ‘we are in need of evaluating what television is about and, perhaps also, of updating our theoretical frame-work to understand the medium’

The emergence of digital, multiplatform television also puts into question many of the central concepts and theories for understanding television and television culture, such as: appointment viewing, mass audiences, liveness and broadcast-flow

In the midst of this change at least three new and distinct functions stand out: pay per view, search and retrieve, and upload and share.

at a time of their choosing.

When modulating some digital data into a display state and experiencing it as an image (say, in order to show a picture of your child to a friend on your phone),

Later, we will see how this could help us also understand immanently digital entities and their relationship to the world.

it is rather to be given a new access to being itself, and one which must thereafter guide our thinking of natural processes more generally.

Unlike broadcast television, multiplatform television can be understood as a rhizomatic assemblage as it contains no centre of significance and cannot be unified into a whole. Multiplatform television consists of a number of different media sites, services and devices where viewers can access the programmes of their choice at any time.

The concept of reciprocal determination is important for challenging the centrality of broadcast television and the idea of television and television culture as something with a fixed and stable structure based on fixed roles, binaries and hierarchies such as production/consumption, producer/audience, industry/consumer and even technologies/text.

This approach means that the actual is always informed and influenced by the virtual and that, while the virtual may have an infinite number of possibilities, only some are actualised. It also implies that ‘the determination of every actual being by the virtual past in its entirety remains contingent for Deleuze:

constantly being reconfigured according to the introduction of new elements and components. This essay turns to assemblage theory because it specifically focuses on open and dynamic systems.

challenges a linear determination based on a cause and effect logic,

‘[T]hey have helped to mask some of the medium’s fundamental transformations, and they have continued to shape key assumptions about television’s interactions with its audiences,

These changes have transformed television from a single platform medium into an interactive multiplatform medium that encourages viewer (if this term is still appropriate) participation

In this mediating sense, we can understand modulation as becoming, although for Simondon mediation never refers to a third entity acting between two structures,

In this mode, the word takes on a definite sense of shaping, even of sculpting, since the shape of the carrier wave is modified by the signal for transmission,

It has come to denote a similar performative action in speech.

Because digitisation places the emphasis on a plurality of modulations of the same material, just as Spinoza conceives of a single substance expressed in an infinity of modes, these modulations are no longer media in any traditional sense.

“with numbers, everything goes […] a digital base will erase the very concept of medium”

a video and a stock market price, until that data is once again modulated into a display register

that will ‘make sense’ of the data in the context of a spreadsheet

As stated above, the fact that there still seem to be media in the world, apparently differentiating themselves from each other, is entirely due to this protocol-driven modulation process to and from display states.

Since the very concept of media by definition presumes that there are media, plural (for example, differentiated media), and since the digital converges all media into a single state (that is to say digital data), then by definition the concept of media simply disappears. In other words, data is the Great Leveler.

must first be digitised to data, then modulated between storage and display in an endless protocol-based negotiation that both severs any link to the data’s semantic source and creates an ever-growing excess of data weirdly related to, but ontologically distinct from, its originating data source.

This ontology will be at once historicist, inhuman, and anti-descriptivist.

return to a full-blown metaphysics of ‘being,’ outside of any subjective or human ‘correlation.’

integrally mediated through the human

whatever happens might also not have happened; yet what happens also happens as a result of human intentions and actions; finally

udienceis faculty in Rhetoric and Composition at Georgia State University, but also admissions committees for graduate programs and professionals involved in hiring and job searches.

what ways do you think you havegrown the most as an author and producer of texts? How have your views, attitudes, and understanding of your writing process,revision, and editin

What is your current definition of “rhetoric”? Which theories, figures, readings, assignments, and/or courses have most contributed to your understanding of rhetoric and its purpose in the world?oProvide your own definition of “critical thinking,”and discuss specific

Any campaign about us must be built on bedrock of real actions and social change involving business, community and governments.”

TEDx is encouraging individuals to go talk to disabled people and ask them questions

The stigma disables.

In all cases, disabled humans get treated as props.

we frequently struggle with how to build friendship networks outside of other kids who share our children’s conditions

The message should be that people with disabilities can set and achieve goals, not that thin equals beautiful.

“The woman is not helpless. She specifically requested assistance with eating,” Ladau writes. “She advocated for what she needed. The employee’s assistance was simply a kind acknowledgment of her request. [The comments] regarding the man are all to the effect of “bless his heart,” “what a hero,” “such a saint.”

Do people with disabilities have the right to expect privacy?

Has he seen her since the fourth grade? Do they hang out together? Does he pity her?

exploring the various ways that disabled people were used to make other folks think mostly of themselves.

“I doubt there’s a computer simulation on the horizon capable of accurately representing all the activity in a single cubic centimeter of soil or the entire sensory experience of clipping one toenail, much less an entire social world of thousands of human users” (Rushkoff 2013, 64).

When we transform our pedagogical practices in the face-to-face classroom to value the deep learning that comes with human interaction and embodiment—particularly when those bodies vary in identity markers of class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability—our students gain ethical knowledge that values human difference.

multiple textures of human experience,

But we can choose to live in between the 1s and 0s—we can choose to live a life that is not programmed.

One of the ways we explore this complexity of human experience is through short readings in modernist literature, including an excerpt from the beginning of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925).

Such practices can be extended beyond deaf students to ESL students, as Babcock suggests, but also to neurodiverse, differently abled, and first generation students.

Instead of focusing on what is “right,” or what makes sense in English, I suggest focusing on the physical concept she is expressing in ASL and offer a variety of ways to communicate that highly visual concept in written English.

but she contorts her body to show the burden of weight, while also twisting her mouth to indicate her doubt about whether or not possessing two coffee mugs is a good idea.

distorts the lived experience

prewriting on their consumer identity

eading body language

her face squished, her arm limp—not in a passion, but in de-attachment. And then we become the sailor: the man, with his left arm locking the woman into his embrace, locking her head into a forceful kiss. The romance dissipates

Likewise, the classroom is no longer a single place, but rather an interface that is shaped by the bodies of the students in that classroom.

I cannot be replaced by a screen.

However, I have invited the stares and have made them a part of the pedagogical practice.

Instead, all of their eyes are on me.

we are ignoring the embodied interface of the classroom and the multisensory affordances of shared space.

his hearing loss was rendered less visible when he narrated a story with everyday facial expressions, gestures, and body movements. At the same time, his performance made visible the storytelling capabilities of the human body, and it demanded that the children decode his stories through careful watching.

Nonverbal communication is the story we tell with our bodies.

according to hearing standards,

viewing sign language as an extension or expression of poetry

a gulf between the words on the page and the ideas they symbolize.

performance of hearing culture

Yet, my formal education in English studies had de-emphasized the body as a vehicle for communication, locating knowledge primarily in oral and aural articulations.

being

normalize deaf persons as hearing persons

exchange their existing human capabilities for assistive devices and de-contextualized simulations.

able-bodied students have learned throughout their formal education to project a perfect blank stare.

Access to student feedback, however, is not the same as actual student feedback.

expressive space of an embodied pedagogical practice.

which can neither speak for themselves nor teach the truth adequately to others?

ceteris paribus

He who is the victim of his passions and the slave of pleasure

No, that is not likely-in the garden of letters he will sow and plant, but only for the sake of recreation and amusement; he will write them down as memorials to be treasured against the forgetfulness of old age, by himself, or by any other old man who is treading the same path. He will rejoice in beholding their tender growth; and while others are refreshing their souls with banqueting and the like, this will be the pastime in which his days are spent.

aid not to memory, but to reminiscence,

but only about conviction

he who would be an orator has to learn the differences of human souls-they are so many and of such a nature, and from them come the differences between man and man.

partly given by nature, but may also be assisted by art.

A very great power in public meetings

in order to remind the hearers of them

I should say rather that I have heard the art confined to speaking and writing in lawsuits, and to speaking in public assemblies-not extended farther.

art of enchanting the mind by arguments;

And yet, Socrates, I have heard that he who would be an orator has nothing to do with true justice, but only with that which is likely to be approved by the many who sit in judgment;

which almost always have previous pain as a condition of them

For there is nothing of which our great politicians are so fond as of writing speeches and bequeathing them to posterity.

But why did you make your second oration so much finer than the first?

blood-red complexion

white

I have no hope of practising my art upon you

For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself

For they praise your words and actions in a wrong way; partly, because they are afraid of offending you, and also, their judgment is weakened by passion.

Yet surely you ought not to be granting favours to those who besiege you with prayer, but to those who are best able to reward you;

repetition

"tu quoque"

dithyrambics.

servant.

And not only while his love continues is he mischievous and unpleasant, but when his love ceases he becomes a perfidious enemy of him on whom he showered his oaths and prayers and promises, and yet could hardly prevail upon him to tolerate the tedium of his company even from motives of interest.

For if love be, as he surely is, a divinity, he cannot be evil.

which may be compared to the irritation and uneasiness in the gums at the time of cutting teeth,-

The followers of Zeus

only the soul of a philosopher, guileless and true, or the soul of a lover, who is not devoid of philosophy

1200 and 1500 words.

Provide your own definition of “critical thinking,”

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conversation with one another

summarize both readings

stripped off her clothes, then hit a woman and threw several platters of food

No bond has been posted in her case.