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Managing Data on the Social Network
By Buck on Feb 9th, 2011
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I’m currently analyzing my dissertation data, investigating literate activity on social networking sites, and I’ve learned a great deal from my...
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Cyberpanics and the Great Facebook Privacy Debate
By Buck on Oct 19th, 2010
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I spent half of last week at the Thoms R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. I thought I might...
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Pamela Fox, "Lowering the Barriers to Communication" Recap
By Buck on Apr 17th, 2010
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Pamela Fox's HASTAC presentation, "Lowering the Barriers to Communication" focused on different methods of communication, particularly for...
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Margaret Rhee, HASTAC Scholar Short: The Raised Fist: A Cyborgian Tale? Recap
By Buck on Apr 16th, 2010
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Margaret Rhee's presentation exemplified what I enjoy most about HASTAC and the HASTAC conference.  Margaret's short documentary asked an...
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Preserving Digital Texts
By Buck on Apr 2nd, 2010
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I ran across this great article in the New York Times today that I thought would be of interest to other HASTACers: Fending Off Digital Decay Bit...
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Aging, Technology, and the Funnies
By Buck on Jan 26th, 2010
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Last Sunday, I found myself in an airport reading the comic strips from a morning paper, which is something I haven't done in a long time.
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Rethinking Digital Literacies
By Buck on Nov 24th, 2009
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I’m at the beginning stages of my dissertation project, considering the representation of identity on social networking sites as literate activity...
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AoIR Conference 10.0 Internet: Critical, or How to Tweet a Conference
By Buck on Oct 20th, 2009
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A few weeks ago, I attended the Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, AoIR 10.0 Internet:Critical, in Milwaukee.
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I am a PhD candidate in the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where I study digital literacy practices and their intersections with identity. My dissertation examines literacy practices connected to identity in social networking sites. I currently serve as the Assistant Director for the Center for Writing Studies.

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