Author: martsean
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The Interface: Where Interactivity Lives
From a rhetorical perspective, interactivity also constitutes meaning-making. It’s about how systems guide behavior and shape understanding,
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Code Talks to Computers…But It Talks to Humans Even More
Code isn’t born outta nowhere – someone’s always behind it, shaped by their background, beliefs, blind spots, along with real concerns.
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What is “New Media,” Anyway?
The concept of “new media” is ever evolving and changing in ways that should be exciting to anyone, no matter their profession.
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New Media and Literacy: Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
It is important for us, readers and writers, to remember that literacy is no longer static; it’s interactive and always in motion.
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How We Went from Ink to Instant
Is your tone different when you handwrite something compared to when you type/text it? I’d be willing to bet that it is.
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Seeing Persuasion: What Visual Rhetoric Teaches Us About How Images Talk
Visuals persuade us, whether that be through pictures, color choice, or layout; visuals influence how we feel about our surroundings.
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Rethinking “Text” in the Digital Age
In our screen-filled world, text isn’t just printed or written word on paper, it is any communicative object that can be interpreted.
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How Language Shapes Us and is Shaped by Us
Despite what we may have been taught all our lives, it’s a core function of a language to adapt to its speakers. Let’s expand on that.
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Privacy and Agency on the Web
Online privacy is more than just what your mom told you about not telling your name or age to strangers on the Internet.
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Digital Rhetoric…Again?
How does social media influence the way you think and act? How do algorithms that can’t think force us to do just that?
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Digital Literacy
In our very digital world, the ability to understand, create, and safely consume digital messaging is a vital skill we should all have.
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Intertextuality
Intertextuality is something that whether you are aware of it or not, plays a role in every piece of media you interact with on the internet.
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What Does it Mean to be “Digital?”
In the modern world, it is not uncommon to prefer digital methods of communication and information display as opposed to analog, but why?