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Rhetoric
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.
Method
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.
Method
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179/5179
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SocialNetworkingProjectThurs 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 Tues, you should be moving towards interpretation as a group.
- For Tues, read chap 17 Visual Communication.
- An example of using the Narrative Paradigm for analysis of Twitter: Tammi's TwitterProject.
Tues 22 April
- Work day. 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 Tues, you should be moving towards interpretation as a group. Review Chap 7: Interpretation.
- For Thursday, bring in print form, or link to, three visuals from the web that work mainly in the context of the web (rather than, say, print)
- one functioning as or using icon(s)
- one functioning by index or indices
- one functioning as or using symbols
You can draw on what you're finding in your study - Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace - or draw on another context.
Example of a print ad working by indices.
Example of a mixed media mashup working by icon. Sound!
Thurs 24 April
- Review of Chap 7: Interpretation
- In class Visual Rhetoric exercise
Tues 29 April
- tba
Thurs 1 May
- tba
Tues 5 May
- presentations
- evals
Thurs 7 May
- finish presentations
- evals
on deck
Describe typical rhetorical situations you are finding in your forumParticipants
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