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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Digital Rhetoric"”.
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Digital Rhetoric: Doing Things with Words Online
<p>It is through rhetorical principles applied to digital writing that online writers can be heard above the din confronting weary online browsers. The synergy between classical rhetoric and new media practices leads to persuasive and memorable digital writing. Despite the hurried clip and the …
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SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY</p> <p>By</p> <p>Geoffrey Gimse</p> <p>The storage capacity of digital systems has expanded at an incredible rate over the past decade. This new and growing space and the rapidly evolving technologies …
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Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021
<p>This dissertation uses auto- and digital-ethnographic methods to analyze the literacy practices of bisexual TikTok users primarily during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, during which time TikTok exploded in popularity among U.S. social media users, especially among …
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Cancel culture: posthuman hauntologies in digital rhetoric and the latent values of virtual community networks
This study explores how modern epideictic practices enact latent community values by analyzing modern call-out culture, a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals responsible for perceived politically incorrect behavior via social media, and cancel culture, a boycott of such behavior …
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Teaching Video Composition and Digital Rhetoric in the YouTube Era: Analysis and Research of Academic Video Essays in the College Composition Classroom
… it is essential to represent this type of rhetorical communication within the college composition classroom. Using video and filmmaking to communicate information in the classroom is not new, as academics have explored such media as aids to writing since the 1970s, following the popularity …
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The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right.
… fascism is inherently natural. By studying the rhetorical techniques and appeals of eco-fascist digital rhetoric, this thesis adds to an emerging conversation regarding the (re)emergence of eco-fascism.
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Nonsense comix presents : the cultural rhetoric of comics
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing, 2010
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Rhetoric Beyond the Digital/Physical Divide: The Internet and Digital and Physical Hybridity
… I report findings from three case studies of rhetoric about the internet based on a rhetorical theory of the internet as physical and digital hybrid. I understand digital and physical hybridity as connections between physical and digital objects enabled by the internet that trouble a …
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Specialized Online Publics and Rhetorical Ecologies: A Study of Civic Engagement in Natural Resource Management
… from theories of public discourse and public rhetoric, this dissertation argues the sportsmen forum represents a specialized online public"publics that are constituted in digital spaces around shared interests and the circulation of texts and (vernacular) discourses, while existing in …
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Video game rhetoric and materialist contingency: genre, circulation, and narrative
… I argue Dragon Quest provides insights into the rhetorical techniques that comprise video game design. Attending to Dragon Quest as digital rhetoric highlights how rhetorical contingencies shape the invention of, engagement with, and circulation of video games. This rhetorical analysis analyzes …
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Hospitable texts
… can edit,” in order to locate an emerging digital rhetoric. That emerging rhetoric is being developed from the bottom up by various rhetors, and it offers rhetoricians a framework for rethinking some of the foundations of the discipline. The discipline has tended to define agency in terms …
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Terrorism on Twitter: Using topic models to examine topoi and digital rituals following mass violence
… circulation of texts, performances, and affect. Digital spaces, however, seem to overwhelm our traditional practices and patterns of attention due to speed and number of things to which we can pay attention. Scholars should think of digital publics as algorithmic publics, ephemeral publics formed …
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Talking Sports: Rhetorical Benefits Of Blogging Sports Journalism
… addresses that shift through examination of rhetorical theory, in-depth first-person research, and a culmination of rhetorical advantages for digitally publishing sports journalists. In the first section of this thesis, the author establishes the rhetorical act of blogging through the …
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Post-Pandemic Theatre: The Transformation of the Literary Form Through the Digital Landscape
The digital landscape has had a significant impact on literature and the way in which it is consumed, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift towards digital operations has enabled the rise of digital literary forms, such as audiobooks and electronic literature, which have opened up …
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The Role of Digital Literacy Activities in Students' Writing Processes
This study examines the digital literacy activities (DLAs) of students composing on computers to provide detailed, thick description of digital writers’ composing processes. Recent studies of writing processes that involve computers rarely acknowledge that digital composing processes “weave …