Potential Questions

We are getting a unique and generous opportunity to speak with Greg Ulmer, the author of Internet Invention - the text that has served as the backbone for this course.  Here are a few potential questions that I might ask if given the chance...


- Why is the MyStory uniquely necessary for successful/effective development of electracy?  Or is it one of many exercises that students could use to get their hands dirty with the internet?  (And if that's the case, why was it chosen as the foundation for Internet Invention?)


- In the MyStory/PopCycle work, you are venturing into lots of psychoanalytic territory, though your work is not an explicit defense of psychoanalytic practice.theory.  Do you think there are risks to that approach from personal or pedagogical perspectives?  If a person resisted the psychoanalytic investigation, could they still effectively contribute to the development of electracy?


- Do think there may be international casualties in the advancement of electracy - widening the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots?"


- What do you make of the iPad?  Are technologies like this advancing our electrate world, or are they still too beholden to traditional media?


- Are there technologies (hardware or software) that would be on your conceptual dreamlist?  Something specific you would love to see developed if you had the resources?