SITUATED

Dora García
25.02 – 07.05.2006
Expo S.M.A.K
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Inspired by the success of Silicon Valley, cities around the world have set to develop local high-tech havens in hope of boosting their economy. These projects often involve the construction of new infrastructure for the designated area, with special emphasis on installing the latest state-of-the-art telecommunication networks. In a different strand of local development, cities like Amsterdam have embraced the Internet’s power to bring people together with hope of supporting interaction in urban communities (Jaeger, 1999). This involves the construction of digital communal services — a very different form of infrastructure. In this paper I examine the convergence of these approaches in the development of an information system within a Finnish coastal city, to serve a district which I refer to as the Heights. I call this information system the Heights Virtual Village.
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Curt Cloninger on Artspeak
by Liza Sabater
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Exhibiting reality: collaboration in practice
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Research on Academic Writing in Critical Perspective.
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Accomodating Science: The Rhetorical Life of Scientific Facts

What happens to scientific information in the course of its adaption to various noninitiated audiences?
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Catching up with Professor Nate: The Problem with Sociolinguisitics in Composition Research

Catherine Prendergast

In Professional Academic Writing, Susan Peck MacDonald makes the observation that recent debates in rhetoric and composition about whether to initiate students into disciplinary practices or “resist” current practices have frequently been framed in terms of “accommodation” versus “resistance,” and adds that “these may be destructive dichotomies for us to be working with” particularly “given the lack of close rhetorical and linguistic scrutiny we have spent on describing the nature, variation, or effects of textual practices in the humanities and social sciences”.
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Orthopraxy, writing and Identity – Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo

Jan Blommaert

In: Jim Martin and Ruth Wodak (eds), Re/Reading the past, Amsterdam, 2003, 177-194.

Orthopraxy: hegemony often occurs in the shape of hegemonic pratcies rather than hegemonic beliefs. People’s behaviour can emanate normative rules and models, while their worldview remains largely untouched and can be a tool of resistance against the deeper meanings contained in that behaviour.
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‘Higher than Einstein’: constructions of going to university among working class non-participants
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Gerald Graff’s major current project is a textbook sequel and companion to Clueless in Academe, to be entitled “They Say/I Say”: The Basic Moves of Argument,” co-written with his wife, Cathy Birkenstein-Graff.
Graff and Birkenstein-Graff are now testing a draft version of “They Say/I Say” in combined sections of first-year composition they are co-teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago (what we will learn from our students’ reactions and progress represents the “research” aspect of this project), and several other college and high school teachers are helping us test the book by teaching it in part or in full.
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