Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

A recent initiative to see how college students seek information in their everyday lives. Includes surveys, interviews, and research in progress.

What's on your shelf? What if people tagged their books the way they tag photos of people on Facebook?

Isn't this sort of the same thing as goodreads but in a different visual format?

The word is that "Snooki" from the crappy tv show "Jersey Shore" got paid more money to speak at Rutgers than the nobel prize winner Toni Morrison did for the university's commencement. This angers me, I'm not gonna lie

yeah...that's kind of disturbing...

A service that helps to make eBooks more like print books (in terms of being able to borrow, lend, and share them)

I found this forum site that has all sorts of forums for literature. I found some James Joyce. There might be others so check it out. You have to be a member to create your own forum or comment I believe.

This is the game I talked about in class

This is another link from the same man's site, but this link is for the blog he did on one of James Joyce's stories. He actually invites his readers to participate in reading Irish literature for the week and then blog about it. He says that he would then make a master copy of all the blogs. Just thought it was interesting.

So I was searching for some blogs about James Joyce and I came across this man's blog, Mel. Talk about being a prolific reader and writer. He reads short stories all the time and posts about each one. I think it is interesting that he started his blog not really think many would read it and now he has almost 500 followers.

Roger Ebert tweeted this link earlier and I found it especially poignant. How do we grieve or even find out when people we only know online pass away?

Very relevant to what we are talking about. These kids are learning and growing collaborative skills and remixing while using Google Docs

I found this site on StumbleUpon.

Newly launched digital literacy site--run by the government.

Here's a remix you may have heard about.

Has anyone else noticed they have like a whole section of Barnes and Noble dedicated to Jane Austen remixes, particularly of the gory zombie persuasion?

Apart from working on the first robotic french kiss, they've also got a robotic teacher in Japan. She looks a bit like Michael Jackson to me....

This video is interesting to see people's reaction to being asked questions first of all! Also, just a fun video on Suroweicki's theory of crowd wisdom. PS Check out the lady's hair at 1:03!!

check out google body if you haven't already. SO cool!

This was posted by Peter Jackson's official "The Hobbit" Blog. It seems to correlate to a lot of the things we're talking about, its essentially someone remixing the LOTR films. I just find it amazing that it could get noticed by the film makers and then reposted to his several hundrad thousand followers.

Hypertext of Milton's Paradise Lost

mentioned in class