Dennis G. Jerz | Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism, Seton Hill University | jerz.setonhill.edu

Text, Speech, Machine: Metaphors for Computer Code in the Law : Computational Culture

On my to-read list once I post midterm grades. As computer software has become increasingly central to commerce and creativity, lawmakers have retrofitted it into preexisting legal regimes to regulate its production and distribution. Currently in the United States, software is eligible for protection under patent law, copyright law, trade secret law and the First…

Banned Books Week | Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept. 30 – Oct. 6, 2012

What, you haven’t honored your freedom by reading a banned book this week? Banned Books Week | Celebrating the Freedom to Read Similar:Lotteries: America's $70 Billion ShameCan this be true? People spend more mone…BooksIPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school.The devices are not really valued as por…CybercultureThe…

I think that should be "typefaces," but then I'm a pedantic bore.

Showcase of 60 Free Horror Fonts For Graphic Designers

I think that should be “typefaces,” but I’m a pedantic bore. Showcase of 60 Free Horror Fonts For Graphic Designers. Similar:Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained DeathSimulations are powerful tools for under…AestheticsThis image of Mark Zuckerberg says so much about our futureA billionaire superman with a rictus gri…BusinessFont…

Angry 10yo Edits the Paper Heart She Gave Her Mother

Similar:Carolyn Jerz featured on Tap Titans TodayI love watching my daughter perform. Her…AestheticsVisiting my parents. Admiring their original Hallmark Enterprise Christmas ornament. I ask…AmusingNo, this Jeopardy! contestant was not making a white supremacist hand gestureConspiracy theories, knee-jerk tribal th…Current_EventsMy Teenage Son Does Not Know How To Mail A Letter – I Blame Technology – ReadWriteA…

Yes, it’s happening here at Seton Hill. Quidditch.

  Similar:“We hate math,” says 4 in 10 – a majority of AmericansIf 30% love math, and 30% are neutral ab…AmusingSins of the Father (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season Three, Episode 17) Klever Klingon Kaper…Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break….PopCultAmong today’s major professional accomplishments: installing this hook. #springbreakMy office door feels more complete now. …AcademiaPost Gazette…

Journalism Warning Labels

Stick these on a copy of your future birdcage liner if you spot any of the many sins of journalism. Be on the lookout for bias, plagiarism, poor sourcing, and hype. Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott. Similar:A fleet of drones performs a light show in Ireland for St. Patrick's Day. I can’t help thinking…

Kids Play the Way Scientists Work

Toddlers, multiple experiments have shown, can test hypotheses about how machines work—for example, they can figure out which blocks made a machine play when some but not all blocks trigger the toy. We have to be careful, though. This exploratory, quasi-scientific approach to the world doesn’t last if adults teach kids to do something else: Kids will let adult…

The Writing Revolution

When a failing high school tries to reinvent itself, it turns to writing — with amazing results. At my own high school, our science teacher was a retired nuclear submarine admiral who used to say, “Give me students who can read and write, and I can teach them to pilot a nuclear submarine.” So I’m…

KLINGON STYLE (Star Trek Parody of PSY – GANGNAM STYLE)

Silly fun, just in time for the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation. via KLINGON STYLE (Star Trek Parody of PSY – GANGNAM STYLE) – YouTube. Similar:Infrared photo confirms Munch wrote "madman" inscription first noticed in 1904“Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!” (“C…AestheticsR.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) Artistic Prosperity TrailerWe rehearsed and recorded…

Winky Winky Drudge Report

The Drudge Report today features an amusing array of images — Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hilary Clinton, and Russian President Vladimir Putin — all of them winking. Clearly the nonverbal message is that all these people — who are unpopular with the conservative populist base to which Matt Drudge caters — are working together. The…

Passing On a Torch

I recently introduced my kids to “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Here’s another dad, writing about introducing his kids to classic Star Trek. But they aren’t just younger versions of me; they pick up on stuff I didn’t at their age.  After a few episodes, The Girl asked “why don’t the girls get…