Daniel Hocutt
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My Copied (and Pasted) Identity on Google
Your post raises a number of interesting questions about what we mean by “identity” and “self,” and how these terms relate to the concept of intellectual property. Your mention of Google sent me wandering into Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. ... -
Expanding Agency to Include Health Care Workers
One area where algorothmic rhetorical agency is expanding is into the health care industry. The data collected by your FitBit or Apple Watch can be standardized, stored in the cloud, integrated with other health data, shared with physicians, and used to ... -
Toward an Ethics of Algorithms
Sean, I’d like to elaborate on the final bullet point you graciously attributed to me in more elegant and concise words than I originally used. The question of whether algorithms need to attune themselves to the way “language gets woven into the environme ... -
Respecting the Volition of the Audience
Walt, I see hope infusing your post, hope that infuses several of the responses to this field guide survey. There’s doubt, too. Hope that algorithms will not become sentient beings that seek the destruction of the human race. Hope that developers, enginee ... -
Thinking through the Risks
Jennifer deWinter’s post calls on us to “think through the risks of crowdfunding and think through ways to mitigate or address these risks ethically and in the interest of everyone’s wellbeing.” I’d like to start that thought process. Risk #1: Burning Soc ... -
IF rhetorical, THEN what is its ethos?
If these automated responses mixed with faculty comments are rhetorical, what is the ethos of the procedural and algorithmic rhetoric? This comment suggests it’s in part an ethos of compliance, even servility, to the demands of policymakers and politician ... -
Personal Identities and Institutional Identity
Thanks for the question about the negotiations that must certainly occur as I allow an institutional identity to “take precedence” over my own identities in the public space. There are other administrators who know I am the poster and sharer of content on ... -
Performing Another's Pedagogy
I love the concept (and phrase) “performing another’s pedagogy.” That Viggo Mortensen “says” it clearly illustrates the networked author. Viggo Mortenson as Aragorn as depicted in two-dimensional motion picture as captured in a still photo as depicted as ... -
More on Re-performing the Self
I wish to re-perform my previous response. Peter Jackson called and excommunicated me from the Fellowship, and he even said I probably can’t visit New Zealand, either. But what interests me about the comment on curating re-performance is the embodiment of ... -
Automatic Writing of the Machine Type
This post touches on the question of whether machines can act as rhetors. Once a flag is raised, the automated system sends an email to the student – attributed to and ostensibly from the faculty member who raised the flag – without human intervention. I ...