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Title:

Is Aristotle on Twitter?

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Level:

Intermediate

Type:

Panel

Category:

Human / Social Issues

Organizer:

WIlliam Burdette, The University of Texas at Austin

Panelists:

JIm Brown (University of Texas), William Burdette, moderator (University of Texas), John Jones (University of Texas), Trish Roberts-Miller (University of Texas), Jillian Sayre (University of Texas)

Description:

We introduce a framework for understanding information overload by reflecting on and updating ancient communicative traditions. Aristotle was an information maven and Cicero a communication connoisseur. These classical communicators designed their speeches around five principles: invention, style, arrangement, memory, and delivery. Contemporary communicators build on this tradition with Web-based technologies.

Although I am listed as presenter, this panel is a joint effort. My colleagues John Jones and Jim Brown co-wrote the proposal and will be co-presenting as well.

This sounds interesting and informative. SXSW needs some theory.

I am really interested in this panel.

Jillian Sayre and Trish Roberts-Miller have been added to this panel. We are very excited about this.

I'm super-excited about all the people who have helped with the creation of this panel. It's kind of funny: Even though I am listed as the organizer, I'm the least qualified, least educated, least published of the bunch. While this sometimes makes me nervous, the more I think about how things happen on the Web, the more I think it's perfectly appropriate that a total novice would organize a panel. It's RL imitating the clickernets. So think of me as the person who made the RL wikipedia-style stub of a panel called Is Aristotle on Twitter? Ask me to fill out the entry, and you'll likely get typoes, misinformation, folk etymologies, apocryphal anecdotes, and other remarkably useless clap-trap. But as a group we will make knowledge, even if it is in a publish-then-filter manner. I'll be Phaedrus to your Socrates, er something.

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