Slides for my talk at the 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY. 3.19.10 My presentation explores the surfacing and tracing of the interstitial writing work that holds together sociotechnical communication. This is writing work that makes visible and persistent previously ephemeral phatic and backchannel communication, and that holds our social graphs together.

1. [ Persistent Backchannels and Social Graphs ] Brian J. McNely :: Ball State University :: Emerging Media Initiative

2. Morville (2005) “ What we find changes who we become.”

3. [ 2010 ] What finds us changes who we become.

4. [ Things.]

5. [ Graphing the Social. ]

6. [ Dublin, CA. ]

7. [ 2009 ] What finds us changes who we become. [ Eugene. ]

8. [ El Paso. ]

9. [ UTEP. ]

10. [ Bridging. ]

15. [ Writing Work. ]

16. [ Backchannel. ]

17. [ Trajectories and Implications. ]

18. Title :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21967211@N02/2154267436/ 3 :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4315202948/ Graph :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eskimoblood/2111672366/ Dublin :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnkay/4092305096/ Bridge :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelastminute/3038532735/ Replaced :: http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/389245068/you-cant-be-replaced You + Me :: http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/395380842/we-love-typography Just Skate :: http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/435481740/skateboarding-is-a-crime-justskate Snoop + Martha :: http://palahniukandchocolate.tumblr.com/post/424562690 TED Notes :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/4347729277/ Backchannel :: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daytona-communication/3274823632/ Rocket :: http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/351099499/rocket-to-nowhere Credits :: http://handa.tumblr.com/post/340189416/photo-by-tavi