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Not a meme but an image macro that became memetic. Look it up.
Getting Started
- WhatMakesThisRhetorical2016
- ObservingTheRhetoricalSituationOfATweet
- OverviewOfRhetoricalMessages
- TheTexualizedRhetoricalSituation
Argument
- NotesOnAnnotatingPisteisOfWebPages
- Exercise: AnalyzingPisteisOnThreeWebPagesExercise
- Some notes on PresentationalEnthymemesOnGoogle
- IntroToPresentationalEnthymemes
- ATheoryOfPresentationalEnthymemes
- PresentationalEnthymemesOnTheBSUHomePage - parts 1 and 2
Memes
- AnIntroductionToMemes- CollectingMemesExercise
A definition of rhetoric
A modest but pragmatic, easy-to-hang-onto definition of rhetoric from Stoner and Perkins:The art and science of creating and analyzing "messages that rely on verbal and nonverbal symbols that more or less intentionally influence social attitudes, values, beliefs, and actions." (6)
Elements of the rhetorical situation in detail
- immediate occasion
- exigence
- issue
- types of discourse that can be used to address the situation
- judicial - to make judgements on the past
- deliberative - to consider for the future
- epideictic - to praise or blame, celebrate, in the present
- forum and genre in that forum
- historical and cultural context in which the immediate occasion exists
- presuppositions are part of this cultural context that are (more or less) shared by rhetor and listener
Elements of Electronic Rhetoric
ENGL 3179-5179 Fall 2017
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For Tues 31 Oct
Class meeting of 31 Oct cancelled
TWO things to work on for 31 Oct
- 1. Read and compile notes on Shifman, chaps 5-7. Start a new page: MemesChaps5to7
- 2. Review your work with CollectingMemesExercise. Add two or three more derivatives to your collection. Pay close attention to making notes concerning stance. Start comparing how the stance changes from derivative to derivative. That's where some interesting rhetorical differences lay.
- In-class exercise: Developing notes on memetic characteristics Exercise moved to Nov 7.
Week of Nov 7 - 14
Class meets Nov 7
- In-class exercise: Developing notes on memetic characteristics
Week of 24 - 31 Oct
In class, we’ll review work with CollectingMemesExercise. Online students: I’ll post comments to your work late Ties or Weds Friday and Saturday.Notes
A meme is not a single artifact but a group of artifacts with shared characteristics of imitation. We are interested in memes as rhetorical artifacts, created in response to a common, shared rhetorical situation that is capped by the meme. p 39Shifman defines memes and details the shared characteristics - memetic dimensions - she sees operating in them. Then presents an example of how to roughly analyze how those shared characteristics are spread by imitation. Her terms of analysis
- content
- form
- stance
- participation structures
- keying
- communicative function
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