wendy k z anderson

One of my graduate students posed an important question about academic marketing-how specific is too specific and how general is the master of none? Her question got me thinking about my own graduate school process...here's what I came up with.

For the last couple of weeks I've been revising a digital production I've been working on for Kairos. I find myself mystified by the digital revision process. It takes different brain work than traditional manuscript revision. During digital revision you are always conscience of the form...of the hyperlinks, of your work in context.

One of my students shared this with me...apparently hypermasculinity allows for men to watch their caloric intake...and a steel gray can.

After 4 years of either satellite, dial-up, or a shady broadband connection, we're getting a DSL hook-up to the house. I been happy-dancing for about 5 days now.

lesson learned: some places do not have (real) internet access... really...

So after a hiatus, I'm thrilled to be back blogging. Between being hacked and the changeover to central IT, digital life had slowed down....slightly. ;)

I've been researching DH grants and thought that I would start making a list of places that may be helpful:

http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#odh

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503302

http://www.iq.harvard.edu/book/export/html/798

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grantseeker/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.fordfoundation.org/Grants

http://www.russellsage.org/research/cultural-contact

...to name a few...

After speaking with some of my graduate students about online resources in rhetoric, I thought that I would post a few new online spaces as well as a few that have been useful to me.

I was pleased to see multiple, new online spaces for rhetorical scholarship and work in Communication:
http://jump.cwrl.utexas.edu/
http://www.presenttensejournal.org/
http://www.silvertonguetimes.com
http://communicationsdegreezone.com

...in addition to some of my favorites:
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/
http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-rhetoric/

Being a Digital Media scholar isn't easy. I know, I know, many people look and say, hey, you get to play games and surf the interweb for points of research and analysis and then provide spaces for students to learn about how to create these things. But when confronting the skeptics who argue there is no value to what I do, I offer not only this financial argument, but hope to have the strength to remind them of the simulacra that we now exist in.