Case Study #4: FrankenTheory

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Boundaries in My Analysis of Google Analytics I am limiting my analysis of Google Analytics as an object of study by focusing on its activities and its data model as reported in terms of dimensions and metrics. Google defines Analytics activity as collection, collation, processing, and reporting. Google describes its data model as consisting of…
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Reading Notes: Deleuze & Guattari, Scott, and Rainie & Wellman

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Deleuze & Guattari Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari (1980/1987) is an experience in disorientation and reorientation. The first pages are entirely disorienting. What is that scribbled piano piece for David Tudor? What is a book without subject or object? How are lines and measurable speed related to the assemblage,…
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Mind Map #10: Seeking Homeostasis

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The ecology of my mind map seeks homeostasis, a natural balance among its many theories. My mind map has become, in Charles Darwin’s words, a “web of complex relations” (cited in Spellman, 2007, p. 4).  Well, maybe not as complex as all of nature, but if we follow the formula for the value of a…
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Reading Notes: Ecology and Distributed Composing

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I plowed through all of these readings in a single sitting, which did not help much with comprehension, but which did affect my experience reading. I’m a composition teacher who prefers to grade all assignments in a single sitting, an web manager who prefers to make changes that affect multiple parts of the navigation structure…
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