Author: Sarah Rosales
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It’s All Rhetoric. All of It.
It sounds obvious, “the core discipline of the humanities is rhetoric.” However, I would never have considered that until it had to be said aloud.
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An Archive of Our Own
The thing about fanfic communities is that when you wanted to post fics about characters kissing, you had to go deep diving for a forum for that.
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Rhetoric, Code, and Morality
Code can be meaningful no matter what the programmer sets out to do with it. An “if-else” statement can hold as much rhetoric in it as a persuasive essay.
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The New Media Age of Art
There is an interesting phenomenon that whereas some old media becomes quickly antiquated in favor of new media, that doesn’t happen with art.
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Words and Web Sites
Broadly, any Web site is interactive because we as users bring our own meanings to every word and image presented to us on the site.
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Elitism and Words on Screen
Words, depending on how they’re presented and perceived, carry a weight to them. Words carved on stone feel weighty than if those same words were typed.
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Visual Rhetoric Complication
I thought visual rhetoric simply encompassed what we can see with our eyes. Real life objects, images, videos, animations, etc.
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Text & Subtext
With regards to digital rhetoric, it makes sense that what we consider as “text” should have a more expansive definition.
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Learning as an Artist
There are books on how to draw, but you must take that information and literally put pen to paper to learn something from them.
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Finding Digital Rhetoric in Horror
Digital rhetoric isn’t just rhetoric but on the Internet, the same way horror isn’t just freaky one-and-done jumpscares.
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Digital Literacy and Meme Culture
Intertextuality might be the web of roads that sprawl straight to digital rhetoric, and digital literacy is the knowledge in getting there.
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Analog Horror and Digital Rhetoric
Analog horror isn’t exactly analog when we apply Eyman’s lecture. The sub-genre is actually a great starting point in understanding digital rhetoric.
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There is Intertextuality for Those with the Eyes to See
Intertextuality is not limited to things you primarily think of as “texts”. It could also be memes you find online, or SNL parodies aired on television.
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Staying Private
I think it’s important to remember now that we can choose to be private in a technological world, and we have a right too.