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The Readiness is All: iPhone5 and AT&T

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A couple of short thoughts on ordering and activating my iPhone5. This was originally an FB post responding to a question from a former student (now friend) about my impressions of iPhone5. Is it worth the money and time? Yes … Continue reading

Protected: Advanced Social Media Syllabus / Fall 2012

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My 1st born-digital poem: “Tournedo Gorge”

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Reader –> Critic –> Tinkerer. Maker? Does it count as “making” if you steal the code? I read e-lit for two years. Increasingly, I wanted to make it. Here’s my first digital poem, “Tournedo Gorge.” Last Sunday, my first e-lit … Continue reading

Special Session Accepted! “Classroom As Interface” comes to MLA13

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Coming to the Modern Languages Association’s annual Convention, Jan. 3-6, 2013 in Boston, MA: “The Classroom As Interface.” It will feature presentations by Elizabeth Losh (UCSD), Jason Farman (U.Maryland/College Park), LeeAnn Hunter (Washington State Pullman) and me (USC Annenberg). Here’s … Continue reading

< Impact > E-Lit at MLA 2012 & Beyond

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Perhaps the most significant index of the MLA 12 E-lit Exhibit’s impact is two new e-lit exhibits coming in 2013: Dene Grigar and I are building a Showcase of e-lit at a venerable public institution in late February (exact dates … Continue reading

A Glossary of New Media Pedagogy Terms

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After an initial rejection, my experimental social media course has been renewed at USC Annenberg during Fall 2012. That’s a longer story I’ll tell another day. In earlier drafts, the syllabus addressed the perception that social media is “smoke and … Continue reading

The Classroom As Interface: a CFP for MLA 2013

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The Classroom As Interface Call for Papers MLA 2013 Boston, MA Jan. 3-6 300-word abstract & bio due Wed. 3/15/2012 to kathiberens [at] gmail [dot] com The classroom has always been an interface, a point of interaction between the physical … Continue reading

My Curatorial Statement: Mobile & Geolocative E-Lit at MLA 12

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This is the revised statement I edited after the Exhibit. Mobile and Geolocative E-Lit: Private and Public Liteatures Curatorial Statement for MLA 2012 Electronic Literature Exhibit by Kathi Inman Berens “The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it … Continue reading

12 Strange, Blue Rains: Touch Evocations in Elit

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It had been a long time since I’d felt surprised by stories. I wondered where had gone the woman who devoted her life to the study and teaching of them? I taught writing. It was a good job. I thought … Continue reading