The world of digital content is one I’ve long known I wanted to dabble in. I wasn’t sure when or how to do that. Setting up the blog for the class “Topics in Digital Rhetoric” has pushed me and put me in a position of having a competent understanding of rhetoric, content creation and digital identity. Continue reading “Reflection”
Digital content at its core is just about anything that is published digitally that can be consumed. Content may be thought of initially as articles or a blog post,but content has countless forms. Video,images, surveys, tweets, podcasts, interviews, and info-graphics are just a few forms of content that allows creators to express themselves, market themselves (or products), or spread information. Continue reading “Content is Evergreen and Ever Spreading”
My digital story shows my journey walking from my house to my grandparents house. Most of the dad’s side of my family (including aunts uncles and cousins) lives on a 40 acre piece of land. The land has been in the family for many decades and has become known among the family as “The Compound”. Continue reading “A Compound Journey”
What is a meme? I think that you know one when you see it, but it’s not the simplest thing to put into words. Continue reading “The Memes are Real, the News is Fake”
Cinema has become a big iconic part of our culture. Thus, film posters have also become iconic. Movie posters are a big part of how the studios and filmmakers sell us on seeing their movie, they’re often one of the first things we associate with films. Continue reading “The Evolution of Movie Posters”
Are internet dialects a thing? Mike Rugnetta of Idea Channel explores the idea a bit. Are they a thing? Absolutely. So what kind of internet dialect do I have? Based on my use of hashtags, word shortenings, acronyms, gifs, memes, I probably fit under the umbrella of “American millennial internet dialect”. But beyond that I (and everyone else on the internet), have a unique dialect (filled with irony, humor,sarcasm and melancholy among other things) that fits into several different sub-(internet) dialects. As with real life on the internet we’re all influenced by a bevy things (real life, other users, other web content), that when infused with our own thoughts and personalities shapes our (internet) dialect. Additionally different mediums have different effects on my language/communication patterns. My personal style of communication can vary depending if I’m using Twitter, blogging, SMS or other mediums. All of them reflect my vernacular as a whole but each mediums brings out a different variation. My preferences of the way I consume content also varies with each passing medium. Continue reading “Online Identities Come with Their Own Vernacular”
Ethos, logos, pathos and kairos are all concepts that are present in everyday rhetoric. Sean Morey details these concepts in The Digital Writer. These concepts are not just limited to digital rhetoric, they exist in other forms such as in print and face to face whether the author and audience are conscious of it or not. Ethos refers generally to the ethics or trustworthiness of something or a message. To me the word that describes it well is credibility. Logos is based upon logic, why your rhetoric is relevant or why it makes sense for the audience to take an interest. Ethos and logos closely relate, in my opinion a sense of credibility can evoke logic and vice versa. Pathos is about using emotions to appeal to the audience, depending on how it is used it can come across as manipulative. Kairos is about timing and finding the proper moment for a message or a response. Continue reading “Ethos, Logos, Pathos and Kairos are Ever Present”
What is being said? And how is it being said? This could be defined as a concept of rhetoric. At least those are some of my initial thoughts when i think of rhetoric conceptually. Opinions on rhetoric vary far and wide. Continue reading “Contextualization is Evolving in the Social Media Age”