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From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

Haven't read all of these articles, but the few I skimmed looked like really good resources for potential readings for students. Specifically geared at the "new" writing students

I used several of these readings in my syllabus. They are really neat!

focused on rethinking education. Features researchers such as James Gee, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown, Katie Salen

From the site: "The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect peoples sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically."

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.