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chat rhythms

Page history last edited by ShareRiff 13 years, 5 months ago

"Gossip" by Norman Rockwell

 

Instant messaging is a powerful tool for quick communication and connection, and using IM, people grow diverse and context-sensitive forms of shorthand, or "information compression." It can also provide rehearsal in/on/around a particular idiom. Real-time writing provides us with the gift of "bad," off-topic, and "unprofessional" discourse to revise, as well--and that's a good thing!! Using IM in the context of a class can help us quickly weave ideas together to form new ones. As we've already seen, for certain assignments, we form into "clusters" and write collaboratively towards one purpose, so to facilitate clustering, this assignment enncourages you to use IM to share links, talk about projects, sequence ideas for a paragraph or entire argument, and find the language most suitable to your intended audience. Then you will post the script to the wiki. When inventing and arranging an essay, you will perform this exercise with each member of your group; in the context of giving feedback to other projects, you will perform this exercise with one  member of another group.

 

Here's a premise for you to consider: rhythm has not so much to do with a previously determined goal or a priori metric; rather, rhythm must emerge, in time. At passionate users, computer programmer and programming instructor Kathy Sierra and software developer Dan Russell argue, as many do, that different rhythms that can emerge when we volley text in chat clients. So, as you ready yourself for this exercise, consult these fundamentals of dialogue, then, clear your mind.

 

Uses for compositional practice

Most of us do not stare at a blank screen when trying to write an IM, while many of us do exactly that while trying to write a "paper". Letting themes emerge, and then tuning them towards the particular and appropriate idiom of a select audience or group of users, can we use IM and wiki to write "papers" that we can fold into our arguments, academic exercises, and projects? How does a "paper" audience differ from an "IM" audience, even when they are the same person(s)?

 

Steps

 

1. Open up your gmail account and make a connection with a peer--or find a chat client/channel (like backnoise or friend feed)that suits your needs:

 

 

2. setting aside at least 15 minutes for each session, make contact with 3  of your peers, and write together in IM.

 

**3. post your IM scripts to the wiki (and link them, below, under "the rhythms"), where we can remix/edit/polish them into something new!

 

the rhythms:

 

write a lil everyday

as practice

dig?

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