—Blogging Changing Journalism (New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University) A small number of my students noted in their end-of-term reflection that they weren’t all that comfortable with blogging because they expected a course in traditional journalism, not all this cyberspace stuff…
Roland Barthes famously announced the death of the author. This weekend, as thousands of professors and their apprentices mill about the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in San Diego, one might ask: Has theory succumbed to the same fate? … [T]heory’s promised political liberation never happened. Cultural theory, he argues, instead mutated into…