Texting Obama Pedagogy workship:

• Political and public rhetoric – speeches, memoirs, letters, editorials,signing statements, YouTube videos, etc. - cultural studies, literature, political science
• Writing instruction and social media (John Schilb’s complaint and the MLA/WPA response): campaigning vs. governance and larger circuits of production that include vernacular discursive practices - representations, responses, mash-ups, etc.
• Digital rhetoric: Internet mobilization, online performance, and the Gov 2.0 audience
• The participatory culture thesis and its critiques: Obama, Google, and the analogy between the Internet and good government

The MLA Panel described here

Sources for commentary

http://www.bagnewsnotes.com (for reading images online about the Obama presidency)
http://techpresident.com/ (for how the web is used in campaigns)
http://dmlcentral.net/ (for general digital literacy instruction)
http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010 (for the O'Reilly version of Gov 2.0 . . . important to be read critically)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ (The Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
http://www.pewinternet.org/ (The Pew Research Center on the Internet & American Life)
http://govtwit.com/ (The Government Social Media Directory)
http://www.usa.gov/ (the Web Portal for the US government)

And, for primary sources, Obama's social web:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse
http://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
http://twitter.com/whitehouse
http://www.myspace.com/whitehouse

The 2008 Digital Rhetoric class

(another example of teaching on the fly with a seminar about September 11th)

The Virtualpolitik epilogue

http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/nehvectors/losh/