Fall 2011Twitter Project Title:
Tshirts, tattoos, and tweets:
A Discussion of Textual Orientation
In 1982, Gombrich claimed we are a culture bombarded with the image. Now, in 2011, we are a culture bombarded with the text, and not just in our own digital drafting, as noted by the Stanford Study of Writing, but in our consumption, promotion, promulgation, and adoption of the text as part of our identity presentation to the rest of the world. Whereas Jameson (1991) calls the linguistic element flabby, we are witnessing a new moment of streamlined, lean, active textuality. How do students apprehend the many texts in (unconventional) space they witness everyday? By making weekly tweets, we raise our awareness about what we are reading in the fragmented texts around us.
This project will focus on texts that are worn or displayed on the body. If you would like to participate (or invite others to participate) in this project, kindly tweet your observations of worn texts – as clothing, tattoos, jewelry, handbags, totebags, and the like – with the following hashtag:
#puttingontext
Being lettered has a whole new meaning.
Looking forward to your tweets,
Ethna Dempsey Lay
Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Composition
Hofstra University
Ethna.D.Lay@hofstra.edu
on twitter: EthnaLay
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