In this webtext, we explore how Magic and other complex analog systems operate rhetorically as activity networks. Our scrutiny of Magic’s protocols leads us to consider and compare the game’s anticipated activities (as described in its game rules and our social expectations, conventions, and norms involved in playing the game) with its realized expressions of those activities (as encountered when actually playing one or more iterations of the game itself).

POOC assignments enable students to step in and out of different important economies that interact in a post-truthy world: the attention economy (engaging viewers with content), information economy (finding info to create the university), reputation economy (developing ethos), and trust economy (learning how to trust others by vetting).

InterviewsDaniel Anderson interviewed by Erin AndersonSusan Delagrange interviewed by Madeleine SorapureKeith Dorwick interviewed by Susan DelagrangeErin Anderson interviewed by M. Remi YergeauThomas Rickert & Michael Salvo interviewed by David RiederDavid Rieder interviewed by Thomas Rickert & Michael SalvoMadeleine Sorapure interviewed by Daniel AndersonVictor Vitanza interviewed by David RiederAnne Wysocki interviewed by Victor VitanzaM. Remi Yergeau interviewed by Anne Wysocki

Our concern with the interaction and interplay between writers, writing instructors and assessors, and technology is part of our interest in understanding the complexities of infrastructure through this ecosystemic frame. In this text, we consider the foundational structures, the architectural supports, of our current writing ecology and then move on to survey the larger landscape of research and debate how to build and sustain a thriving ecosystem of writing and writing instruction and assessment.

Even though a great deal of image and text will be spent discussing the website of an anti-smoking organization, this webtext isn't really even about them. The concern here is what happens when the classical means of persuasion meet the cool tactics of a digital interface and take a beating in the process.

Given that my film is exploring a punk ethos that attends DIY filmmaking, I decided that the rough nature of the video created appropriate content...these are the sorts of details that reveal the complex, cinéma vérité nature of the DIY experience.

Scott McCloud is well-known for his nonfiction comics (NFC). He has theorized how comics work and also helped describe how Chrome, Google's Web browser, works. The dynamic combination of visual and linguistic symbolizing in comics makes it a great tool for research and argumentation, as well as narrative memoirs and fiction.