According to Ulmer, the first step in creating a mystory is to create a widesite, or "website version of your image of wide scope." The concept of wide scope was developed by Gerald Holton, who argued that every person possesses a guiding set of images that contribute to the person's state of mind or being. He also argued that this wide scope is developed by the time the person reaches the age of 18.
One of the goals of the EmerAgency is to change the school system so that people are assisted in developing their wide scope before entering the work force so that they can better prepare for their career. TheEmerAgency recommends doing this by way of website: hence, the widesite.
The widesite is made up of a series of websites that are each devoted to different areas of one's life. The person doing the work can then look for connections. The first installment of thewidesite relates to the person's career or field of disciplinary knowledge. The assignment Ulmer suggests doing focuses on gathering detailed (not generalized) information aboutpivotal moments in your career or field. He says that it resembles a research topic, except that instead of forming an argument, you are attempting to identify with the information. The project is meant to be personal, subjective, and related to an individual's specific specializations.
Briggs discusses Gerald Holton’s idea of themata. According to Holton, themata are gut assumptions that scientists have about the universe. He believes that these assumptions about the universe start early in childhood and are fairly consistent over time. Themata are not abstractions, but are perceptions that give the person a concrete feel for the surrounding world. Ulmer notes that themata has been found across professions and isn’t just limited to scientists.
DQ: What do you think could be the ideas that shaped some of
the popular superheroes view of the world? Ex. Batman, Superman,…
Interesting point: Page 24- Ulmer believes that “the proof
of the value of an invented term is its use.” He makes a strong point, but he may lose his overall message using invented terms instead of terms that are familiar to his audience. Ex. Language and grammar
Popcycle- the ensemble of all language or meaning-producing
activities into which members of a society are hailing. Hailing- the social or psychological process by which our identity is constructed. I had a teacher in high school who said that most people identify themselves off of the identity of others. This is probably because it is nearly impossible to identify yourself thoroughly without the involvement of your social surroundings. People see themselves reflected in others. We always see ourselves differently than how others see us.
This reminds me of the importance of society. People on their own are pretty much a blank slate; with people to interact with, personalities develop.
Dominant Institutions of the Popcyle: Family, Community,
Entertainment
The actual popcycle is the way ideas that are important to
the culture arise in the institutions
Note: Hailing needs more explanation
According to Ulmer, every institutional discourse has its
own icons which act as emblems for “scripts of normative behavior.” Pg. 26
DQ: What happens when the emblem doesn’t perform as
expected? Or does this never happen because that it the purpose of the emblem?
Grammatology-In this section, Ulmer forewarns readers that a number people do not agree with the following claims that he makes. Ulmer claims that most books are written in a disciplinary voice, that the internet is a book that is written in first person, and he feels that this allworks together to create a practice of electracy and emergancy. Ulmer provide the following as a backing for his stance. He explains how overtime the simplification of Aristotle's and Plato's discoveries and schools have lead to electracy. Ulmer uses the alphabet as an example, which was invented in the 19th century, and was invented to serve as a new type of recording device. This he says is an example of electracy.
Ulmer claims the goal is not to adapt digital technology to literacy. Instead he states how we should discover a new practice that can adequately develop and display the potential of new technology, and not adapt old practices/literacy to new form of technology.a
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