Author: Sarah Abrego
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Network of Interactivity
Interactivity allows people to connect and interact with one another. Social media helps expand the number of people who can interact.
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Intertextuality
Interactivity allows for people to apply what they know or understand to a text. This is more so possible with online text such as social media.
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Visual Rhetoric
Rhetoric has been a subject that has been expanded upon to better explain its true meaning. Because of this, it has many subjects attached.
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Understanding Media: Messages
McLuhan expresses the importance of understanding the impact of media on society in order to fully understand a media’s message.
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Rhetoric: Alternative Terms
Digital Rhetoric has been defined multiple times throughout the years with new terms being created from the original phrase.
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What is New Media?
New Media describes the most recent advancement in mass communication that has been done through the use of the internet.
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Fixed Media
Fixed media refers to the idea that a form of “media” cannot be changed or altered as it may interfere with the intended meaning of the work.
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Understanding Rhetorical “Text”
To understand digital text, “text” needs to be broken down. Eyman’s “Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric” helps explain its meaning.
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Rhetoric: Language and Communication
Rhetoric has had many explain and develop its understanding into new ideas and concepts. As such, communication has also developed greatly.
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Digital Rhetoric
Rhetoric originally meant any form of persuasion using any form of communication. This term has since expanded to include many variables.
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Understanding Digital Literacy
Digital literacy refers to literacy practices enacted in the digital space. Other practices do not fit the description as accurately.
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Learning about Digital Rhetoric
Digital Rhetoric is used to describe the use of information being shared with others. Both words mean something different.
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Learning about Technology
Technology has positive and negative aspects to what people can do with it. It is important for people to start learning about these aspects.