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Rhetorical messages: messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs, and actions. (6)
Aim of method: to show how specific messages are constructed to do that.
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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SocialNetworkingProjectTues 8 Apr
- TheRhetoricalSituationsOfTwitteringExercise due
- report on progress
- review of method: aims of description and analysis: characterizing messages, characterizing message patterns, other patterns, ... making creative leaps to analysis by charts, diagrams, maps, continua, search models (boyd and Heer, "Profiles as Conversation")
- Stoner and Perkins, pp 47 - 58; 60 - 65; pp 79 - 82
- Notes on method: DescribingFacebook and DescribingFacebookContext (that is, rhetorical situation)
- work time
Thurs 10 Apr
- workday
- you're looking for rhetorical parts and patterns: patterns of repetition, sequencing, and omission; anomalies to patterns; and patterns of relationships.
- search models: narrative paradigm (chap 11); social contract model (MySpace); boyd and Heer, "Profiles as Conversation," others?
- to prep for Tues, read Chap 6: Interpretation
Tues 15 Apr
Some preliminary findings from your group- Each group will lead a 15 minute presentation and discussion of what they've found so far. Mainly analysis - uncovering the rhetorical elements and how those elements work together - and (possibly) leading to questions about the messages that can be addressed by interpretation.
- Example of using the Narrative Paradigm for analysis of Twitter: Tammi's TwitterProject.
Thurs 17 Apr
- Last moment to turn in TheRhetoricalSituationsOfTwitteringExercise
- Notes on interpretation
- Now that each group has worked out a search model, get your hooks into analysis. Your analytical notes should be using terms from your search model to identify and summarize patterns in the messages. By the end of the day on, you should be moving towards interpretation as a group.
- For Tues, read chap 17 Visual Communication.
Tues 22 April
- Visual Rhetoric exercise
Thurs 24 April
- workday, probably
Tues 29 April
- tba
Thurs 1 May
- tba
Tues 5 May
- presentations
- evals
Thurs 7 May
- finish presentations
- evals
on deck
Participants - finish presentations
- evals
TammiHartung | AbiTarutis | NicholasOmann | JustinWerstlein | JoHanna | MonayaMMaGaurn | MichelleBroadrick | ShawnRakowski | HelenHansen | BenSwarts | ZachOlson | ErikLundin | BaileyOberschmid | JustinGagola
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