Founding Fictions @ Willamette

In Education, Technology Changes Everything and Nothing

Brandon Busteed, on The Atlantic’s 2012 Technologies in Education Forum: “In a room full of technology experts … discussion kept returning to the basics of great classroom teaching. There was widespread agreement among the participants that technology will change everything and nothing. Essentially, what we do with technology has to have fundamental underpinnings in what [...]

Elena Kagan’s Rhetorical Style

One Story, Many Views

The Newseum offers a look at today’s front pages: See how 760 newspapers from 76 countries covered the bin Laden story.

Arizona Attack Puts Power of Political Rhetoric Back in the Spotlight

Communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the power of words, media culture, and the state of political rhetoric with Mark Shields, David Brooks and Beverly Gage on PBS NewsHour. A full transcript of the discussion is available here.

Thinking Violence and Rhetoric

As Americans grapple with the attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and the character of contemporary political discourse, Erin Rand’s review essay offers a thoughtful consideration of the relationship between rhetoric and violence. via Jennifer Mercieca