Dennis G. Jerz
jerz.setonhill.edu | blogs.setonhill.edu
Associate Professor
English -- New Media Journalism
Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
You are in a large room, with a passage to the south, a passage to the west, and a wall of broken rock to the east. There is a large "Y2" on a rock in the room's center. --"Colossal Cave Adventure">_
Recently Posted on Jerz's Literacy Weblog
The Superbowl, Technology, and the Police State (1984-2010)
There's a dissertation in here. All I have the energy to do today is imply a connection.Using a police state to market technology in 1984: Using a police state to market technology in 2010:...
Social Media and Young Adults -- Pew
None of this is a surprise to me, but I'm glad to have statistics to back up my impressions. A very small handful of students whose first introduction to online social networking was the SHU blogosphere, before blogs went really...
Google's Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search
I didn't watch the game, but I did catch the buzz about this ad. Yes, I did tear up. (Wired has details.)...
The great global warming collapse
It is dangerous to use local weather events (such as a heavy or light winter) to make judgments about global climate.With that caveat, I'm blogging the following because I've noted a shift in the online discussion about "global warming," or...
Background and Links
Jerz's Literacy
Weblog
Since the spring of 1999, I have annotated web links
on technology, humanities, cyberculture, journalism, academia, and everything
else that makes my heart go thumpety-thump.
New Media Journalism
@ Seton Hill University
The main portal for the blogging community at Seton
Hill University. Any student, faculty, or staff member can get a free
blog here.
Online
Resource Room
A large collection of instructional handouts, covering
academic writing, electronic text, and technical writing. Popular pages
include the MLA-style
Bibliography Builder, and handouts on blurbs,
e-mail,
and usability
testing.
Interactive
Fiction
Interactive fiction requires the text-analysis skills
of a literary scholar and the relentless puzzle-solving
drive of a computer hacker. People tend to love it or hate it. Those
who hate it sometimes say it makes them think too much.
Other Major Resources
Teaching and Research
- LA100: Basic Composition
- EL200: Media Lab & advising Setonian
- EL236: Writing for the Internet
- EL405: New Media Projects
- Teaching Archive
Recent Scholarly Activity
- Jerome
McDonough, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Doug Reside, Neil Fraistat, Kari
Kraus, Rachel Donahue, Dennis Jerz, Henry Lowood, Megan Winget. "Preserving Virtual Worlds: Models & Community." Digital Humanities, University of Maryland, 2009.
- "Teacher Tapestries: Reflections on Teaching Blogging Over a Decade" College English Association, Pittsburgh, 2009.
- "Thinking Inside the Box: Free and Open Source Alternatives to CMS" Presentation for the workshop "Course Management Systems: A Viable Reality in the Composition Classroom" Conference on College Composition and Communication 2008.
- "Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave: Examining Will Crowther's Original 'Adventure' in Code and in Kentucky" Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2007.
- "When Student Experts Remix the Discipline: New Media in the Composition Classroom" Panel co-chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication 2007.
- "Emerging Social Software." Special interest group chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication 2007.
- "Assessing Google as Teaching & Research Tool." Teaching & Learning Seminar, Seton Hill University. January 2005.
- "Football Slouches Toward a Former Women's College." Inside Higher Ed. January 2005.
- "The Bane of the President's Existence." Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing. [Digressions: Reflections on Teaching -- Academic Blogging.] January 2005.
- Professional biography (C.V.)



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