Sure, some people would prefer to create art from their DNA, but I would rather create art from my words.

In April, Todd Lilly and I will be giving a talk at the Expanding Literacy Studies conference entitled, “Remixing Rhetoric: What’s Old about New Literacies?”  I created a Wordle, using the abstract of our proposal.  Todd joked that perhaps we should do some installation art or a performance piece instead of a traditional, PowerPoint-driven talk.  Check it out:

And Damiana Gibbons and I recently put in a proposal for the United Kingdom Literacy Association’s annual conference.  We’re talking about a concept that we’ve developed called “dynamic noise” about how youth use digital media to push back against the cultural ideologies that often work to marginalize or silence their voices.  Here’s the Wordle of it:

Cool, huh?

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