[PN] Intertextuality (16 Dec. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Call for Conference Papers

ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL LITERACY AND EDUCATION
RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE ON LEARNING
Cojamar Pedagogical Convention Centre
Havana, Cuba, 27-30 June 2004
Sent by Professor Mary Kalantzis
Dean, Faculty of Education, Language and Community
Services, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
<mary.kalantzis@learningconference.com>
Critical issues to be addressed include education for local and
global cultural diversity, the impact of new technologies,
changing forms of literacy, and the role of education in
social and personal transformation. The conference welcomes
presentation proposals addressing a broad range of themes
across the humanities and social sciences. Conference papers
will be published in print and electronic formats in the peer
refereed International Journal of Learning. If you are unable
to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available
allowing access to the full text of the electronic edition of the
Journal for that year. Virtual registration also allows you to
submit a paper - which will appear in the conference program,
be included in the refereeing process and, if accepted for
publication, be published into the International Journal of
Learning as a fully refereed academic journal article.
The first deadline of the call for papers is 30 January 2004.
http://www.LearningConference.com

* Reference Websites

Semiotics for Beginners
[Online book] by Daniel Chandler
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
[Chapter on] Intertextuality
[I'm interested in how intertextuality relates to hypertextuality - Ed.]
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem09.html

* Periodical articles

PowerPoint Makes You Dumb
By CLIVE THOMPSON, New York Times, December 14, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14POWER.html

UN E-schools Aim To Connect Pupils, Villagers Across Developing World
Distance-Educator.com's Daily News, Dec 15, 2003
Source: The United Nations
http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/Article10343.phtml

The Battle for Water
Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, YES! Magazine, December 9, 2003
"Due to increasing demand, shrinking supply and the interest of
global corporations out to make a profit, water has become the
'blue gold' of the 21st century."
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17360

Web of connections: the personal and business ties
between Texas, Washington and the Middle East
By Stephen Fidler and Thomas Catan
New York Times, December 12, 2003
"Neil Bush's business partners have a new venture, in keeping
with the times. New Bridge Strategies was set up this year to
help companies secure contracts in Iraq following the war."
[Details some of Neil's business ventures trading off his name,
without going into his private life. Like GWB without religion - Ed.]
http://www.nytimes.com/financialtimes/business/FT1069493929275.html

The Uncompassionate Conservative
"It's not that he's mean. It's just that when it comes to seeing how
his policies affect people, George W. Bush doesn't have a clue ...
here is a man shaped by three intertwining strands of Texas culture,
combined with huge blinkers of class. The three Texas themes are
religiosity, anti-intellectualism, and machismo. They all play well
politically with certain constituencies ...  just another upper-class
white boy trying to prove he's tough ..."
By Molly Ivins, Mother Goose, November/December 2003 Issue
[A good psychoanalysis by a Texan who knows him well - Ed.]
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_559_01.html

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