VG November 2005 Blog Archives

November 22, 2005

completely unrelated question

Just wondering - forgive if this was discussed and discarded at a meeting I didn't attend - would it be possible to make it so that when one's cursor hovers over the banner at the top of the page (with the women's faces in a row) a small caption would appear showing the name of the particular woman one was hovering over? It might be a pain and not worth it, but from a curious-visitor perspective, might be cool. RM.

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November 21, 2005

Research Paper-- Questions 1

Some questions: PR pitched this presentation as "four women and a computer." In that case, would the computer stand for the academy? Or is it our and/or VG's users' tool for intervening in the academy from outside? Or does the computer allow us to intervene in the extra-academic world from inside? Where are the gaps located, and to what extent are we in them? LC

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Research Paper--Starting Out

The VG staff is collaborating on a paper we'll present at the 2005 MLA Convention on the panel "Theorizing Negotiation, Negotiating Theory." We invite users to join our conversation. Should we want to use your comments in our paper, we will contact you for expressed permission. PR suggests we make the presentation unconventional and performative (i.e., fun), though, due to time and financial constraints, we'll have to scrap the t-shirt idea. We might, as we've mentioned before, script a conversation between ourselves, and thereby become women performing negotiation of our key ideas. What do you all think of this? Should we return to our notes or what we remember of our diagram-producing conversation about "liminality"? Should we just edit the New Media paper, working to theorize negotiation, as distinct from collaboration? Or should we create a new dialogue here, or some combination of these? LC

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November 20, 2005

We're testing the upload function

Here are some webtrends info for our site. They're a little outdated, but still useful. Download file

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