About Me
- Name: Liz Losh
I think that digital rhetoric is especially important now that so many citizens rely on official websites as sources of information.
Book News
- The Virtualpolitik book is out from MIT Press!
Amazon link
Where to Find My Latest Essays
- Error: Information, Control, and the Cultures of Noise in New Media
- Facebook and Philosophy
- Joystick Soldiers
- LGBT Identity and Online New Media
About
Awards
Press
My Other Websites
Other Places I Blog
Classic Virtualpolitik
- The Plan to Save French Pop Music
- The 2009 Foleys
- Too Cool for School
- The Vanilla Ice Problem
- The 2008 Foleys: The Worst that .gov Has to Offer
- From the Crowd to the Cloud
- Dumbest and Dumber
- Ten Principles for the Digital Family
- Collision Detection or Why Europeans are Better at Cheek-Kissing
- Flame Proof
- The Forty-Year-Old Ballerina
- Loser Chooser
- On Procedurality
- Slippery Slope
- Designing Horses
- On Exhibitionism
- A Story about Bicycles
- On Dissimulation
- Walshed Up
- On Transgression
- No Laughing Matter?
- Something Wiki This Way Comes
- Six Principles for Interdisciplinary Research
- My Dinner with Quandary
- Loser's Circle
- One Room Schoolhouse
- Diary of a Mad Poll-Worker (Part Four)
- Free Culture Badge
- Anti-Media Media Social Marketing
- Who Will Be Voted of the Island?
- I Want a Digital Rights Candidate
- Of Mice and Men
- The Horses of Elberfeld
- Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
- Arm Twisting
- Help Desk
- In the Zone
- The Virtual Global Taskforce
- Divide and Conquer
- Is There Any Other Kind of Culture Than Information Culture?
- Human Rights and Copywrongs
- How Much Memory Does That System Come With?
- Reading Room
- Don't Be Evil . . . Unless the Month Has an "E" in It
- Early Adopters
- Knowing is Beautiful
- Playing Doctor
- Do you know the word "gullible" isn't in the Internet?
- Stealth Marketing
- The Art of Argument
- This is a Test of the Emergency Webcasting System
- What's So Bad about Social Marketing?
- Congratulations! It's Twins!
- No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?
- Boxing Day
- Are Those Who Can't Surf the Web Drowning?
- Welcome to the Desert of the Unreal
- Page Not Found
- Theaters of Cruelty
- The Back Side of Water
- Do Not Open Until X-Mas
- Say Cheese
- Better Without the Stand-Up Comedy
- If you can't say anything nice . . .
Topics
- 9/11
- Afghanistan
- alternate reality games
- analog media
- Apple
- art
- auditory culture
- bibliographies
- big media
- blogging
- book reviews
- branding
- China
- close reading
- computer animation
- conferences
- congressional legislation
- composition
- consumerism
- copyright
- database aesthetics
- digital archives
- digital parenting
- Disney
- distance learning
- e-mail etiquette
- economics
- elections
- environment
- feminism
- France
- free speech
- game politics
- generators
- global villages
- government reports
- government websites
- grammar
- hacking
- Harvard
- higher education
- hoaxes
- human rights
- India
- information aesthetics
- information literacy
- information theory
- institutional rhetoric
- interactive narrative
- interactivity
- interdisciplinarity
- Iraq war
- justice system
- The Los Angeles Times
- massive games
- medicine
- metadata
- Microsoft
- Middle East
- military
- MIT Press
- movie reviews
- network neutrality
- online communities
- panels
- parody
- participatory culture
- personal life
- Photoshop
- plagiarism
- PowerPoint politics
- print media
- privacy
- procedural rhetoric
- professional associations
- public diplomacy
- religion
- remix culture
- risk communication
- security
- science
- search engines
- serious games
- sexuality
- social marketing
- social networking
- sports
- talks
- teaching
- technology
- terrorism
- ubiquitous computing
- UC Irvine
- UCLA
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- urbanism
- USC
- virtual worlds
- virtualpolitik
- visual culture
- web 2.0
- White House
- wikis
- YouTube rhetoric
Links
- Acephalous
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Apophenia
- Architectures of Control
- Ars Technica
- Association of Internet Researchers
- Avant Game
- BAGNews Notes
- Bitch Ph.D.
- Blur + Sharpen
- Boing Boing
- Center for Future Civic Media
- Calit2
- The Clutter Museum
- Collision Detection
- Computers and Composition
- Computers and Writing
- Conference on College Composition and Communication
- Copyfight: the politics of IP
- Creative Commons
- Critical Code Studies
- Derivative Work
- Design Your Life
- Differences and Repetitions
- Digimag
- Digital Ethnography
- Digital Games Research Association
- Distraction Economy
- DIY Media Weblog
- Educause Connect
- Electronic Literature Organization
- Feminist Law Professors
- Freedom to Tinker
- Futures of Learning
- Game Politics
- Grand Text Auto
- HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory
- Henry Jenkins
- The HUMLab Blog
- I Blame the Patriarchy
- Information Aesthetics
- InfoDesign: Understanding by Design
- The Institute for Distributed Creativity
- Institute of Network Cultures
- International Game Developers Association
- Internet Archive
- Jerz's Literacy Weblog
- John Brown's Public Diplomacy Review
- Joho the Blog
- Journalism & Games
- Kairosnews Lawrence Lessig
- Ludica
- The Ludologist
- Ludology.org
- MacArthur Foundation: Building the Field of Digital Media and Learning
- Lev Manovich
- Media Art Histories
- Mel Horan
- Modern Language Association
- Museum of Hoaxes
- The National Communication Association
- No Caption Needed
- Open
- The Participant Observer
- Persuasive Games
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Popular Culture Association
- Public Knowledge
- Remix Theory
- Rikomatic
- Schneier on Security
- Serious Games Initiative
- Serious Games Source
- Sex and Games
- SIGGRAPH: Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics
- Slashdot: News for Nerds
- Social Design Notes
- Social Design Site
- Software Studies
- Source Watch
- Space and Culture
- Spare Change
- Spurgeon World
- Storygeek
- surveill@nce st@te
- techPresident
- Terra Nova
- Transliteracies Project
- Virtual Cultures
- Water Cooler Games
- We Make Money Not Art
- The Wired Campus from The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Women in Media and News
- Wooster Collective
- WRT: Writer Response Theory
- Zones of Emergency
Personal
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- Flickr Photostream
- MySpace: New Media Maven
- Second Life Avatar: Malaise Etoile
- You Tube Channel
Gold Stars
Previous Posts
- MLA 2012: Debates in the Digital Humanities
- Mobile Money, Digital Learning, and the Virtual St...
- Can Public Education Co-Exist with Participatory C...
- Home is Where the Logo Is
- Performance Anxiety
- Where Is Governor Moonbeam?
- Flying without a Flight Plan
- Mobility Shifts
- Why Is There No Motherhood.gov?
- Songbirds, Lovebirds, and YouTube
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