StoryTelling for New Media

For Tuesday, you should read:

- “The Great Seduction” from the Cult of Amateur (course reader)
- “The amorality of Web 2.0” Nicholas Carr
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Web 2.0” from Wall Street Journal
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Following your reading, you should Post by Monday to your blog about this reading. For this post focus, as we discussed in class, on finding what the underlying assumption is in Keen’s analysis that he doesn’t address. Focus on exposing ONE of these assumptions and how it is crucial to his case, but not necessarily true. (As an example recall how INSERT Mobile Crunch article assumes that an artist is different from the general public, and what that says about his piece.) Again your job is to find what is implicit in Keen’s argument and make it explicit. This is not a matter of saying how you disagree with everything he says (you might) or refuting his every point (don’t get caught playing his rhetorical game), rather the point is to hone in on one idea and exploit it.