Bill Wolff, PhD

Associate Professor, Communication, Film, and Journalism, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA

just for fun

  • baracky: the movie

    My initial reaction to this video (sent to me by a colleague at Rowan) was a loud, sharp, guffaw. After recovering from seeing Obama as Rocky doing one handed pushups, I began to realize that there is quite a bit of masterful visual rhetoric going on in here taking off from the boxing conceit…

  • from new jersey to the world

    via PostSecret One of the greatest culture shocks of my life (that is, after the shock that came from moving to Cincinnati after an unbroken year in Europe) came when I moved to Texas and it was not because of the politics or the history or anything, but the fact that there is so…

  • communities of practice

    A student blogging at Care4Poor posted a link to this site as a humorous break from the all the technology frustrations she was having. Its an interesting video, however, to consider in terms of our reading for this week—Wenger’s (1998) Communities of Practice (interestingly, students have been blogging most about (read: complaining about) Wenger’s…

  • mapping blobs

    A student in my graduate course blogging at Famous in My Own Head points to this news release from Lewiston, Maine: A large, mysterious blob has taken over a major sewer line in the city of Lewiston, leaving public works crews stumped as to how to budge it. The best part of the story,…