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

In May, 2000, I was blogging about the ‘I Love You’ virus, hacking URLs, PG Wodehouse, and Pez poetry

In May, 2000, I was blogging about The “I Love You” IRC virus A college that shifted to online applications only A poem about Pez that has lodged this couplet forever in my brain: What art thou, Pez, that must needs be dispensed? T’ be merely wrapped would leave thee so incensed? Hacking the URL…

Sherlock Holmes and The Woman (WAOB Live Virtual Performance)

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Jaw-dropping moments of insight and humanity. So funny, so edgy, so affirming! I did not expect #PPTPlaytime “The Boougie Gentleman” to play me like that. Wow! @thepublicpgh

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Masked up, so I don’t infect you, in case you are in a vulnerable group. Feeling healthy. Not afraid. Just being decent to fellow humans.

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Sherlock Holmes and The Woman (daughter and I rehearsing for a live recording Friday afternoon)

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Crochet octopus for the win! Crazy costume for #pptplaytime Boougie Gentleman (adaptation of Moliere, by way of The Jeffersons)

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Spring 2020 Quarantine Grades Submitted

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My brother set my parents up for a Mother’s Day video call.

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Kimmel’s Jab at Pence’s “empty box” joke illustrates a bi-partisan #fakenews problem

If, like pollster Matthew McDermott, you shared (or at least chuckled at) that Jimmy Kimmel clip of VP Pence joking about delivering empty boxes because it confirms what you already believe about Pence; or, if you feel the C-SPAN clip that unfairly makes the VP look bad confirms your attitude about the lying America-hating media,…

#PPTPlaytime Tartuffe @thepublicpgh (Looking forward to Part 2 of this live videoconference production tomorrow)

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Seton Hill graduates its last “New Media Journalism” major this year.

The English program is not going anywhere, but Seton Hill is graduating its last “New Media Journalism” major this year. Likewise, students who graduate under the current catalog won’t get diplomas that say “Literature” or “Creative Writing.” This was a step that the English faculty took on our own initiative, in the context of a…

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Minecraft Style

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Adorable Dolphin encounter makes Texas sloth video go viral

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That moment when you're logging into a table read of #RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), the 1920s Czech play that invented the "robot rebellion" SF trope, and and you see this…

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How’s newsgathering during COVID-19 at the state level? Depends on the governor.

Journalists covering state responses to the coronavirus pandemic are hampered as officials reduce seating in briefing rooms, introduce unreliable technology and, in some cases, refuse real-time questions. Governors have also seemingly used the crisis to retaliate for critical coverage, blocking access or reducing press pools to friendlier outlets. But some state governments have pivoted with more…

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

In April 2000, I was blogging about HTML frames, the future of reading, grammar, Kairos, and Hypercard

In April 2000, I was blogging about… HTML frames (who remembers how much they sucked?) The sorry state of web design (AskTog) The future of reading “Rules grammar change: English traditional replace to be new syntax with” (The Onion) Journalism students who don’t read or watch journalism A design critique I published in the innovative…

Wide-angle view of a villain’s secret lair. #blender3d

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