Dratz's blog

Transana qualitative analysis software

Dratz — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:08:06 -0400

I plan on using Transana to assist with the the analysis of my aduio/video files from Dungeons and Dragons online. Transana allows for coding of video clips, associating them to nodes for anlaysis, and the stroing of transcripts and ethnographic field notes.

You can find out more about it here: http://www.transana.org/

I am a cyborg

Dratz — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:16:00 -0400

This was a blog I wrote earlier this summer (for my own personal blog) on Haraway's notion of the cyborg. I've read the article a couple of times...well and I just wanted to post what I have written here.

Marshall McLuhan in an undergraduate rhetoric class

Dratz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:12:29 -0400

I was looking at my undergrad sysllabus and we are reading Marshall McLuhan in rhetoric class. However, the piece we are reading is the medium is the MESSAGE. Its a bit more "traditional" in that sense. I've attached a copy if you are interested.

Fragmentation

Dratz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:26:52 -0400

As I continue to study identity in the online world, I am becoming more interested in the idea of fragmentation of online identities as well as the reconstitution of these identities via technological means. McLuhan speaks to not only this fragmentation, but also to irrational rationalism and (I think) even borrows heavily from some Marxist notions.