Author: santsydn
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Technology Can Never be Neutral!
The meaning code creates, and human-computer interaction impacts not just how technology views us, but also how we view the world.
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Everything’s Connected: Intertextuality
Intertextuality is everywhere. In what you read, the memes you send, and even the buttons you click. Everything is connected.
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Digital Privacy is Important! Terms and Conditions May Apply.
In the digital age, every swipe and click follows you—learns about you. Which is why protecting your digital privacy is so important.
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Saving the Web Starts in the Classroom
The Web, in its current state, is a place of discriminatory practices, and to change it, we have to look beyond the content it presents.
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Scrolling Down the Rabbit Hole: The Rhetoric of Code
Can code be rhetorical? Yes. Yes, it can. Rhetoric in code persuades our actions, behaviors, and meaning-making in digital spaces.
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New Media & Identity
New Media has changed how we communicate and express ourselves on digital platforms, and how we present our identity online.
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Interactive vs. Interactivity (yes there’s a difference)
What is interactive? Being ‘interactive’ means more than clicking buttons or hyperlinks, and goes beyond a purely technological connotation.
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: Visual Rhetoric
A picture is worth 1000 words. Visual rhetoric plays an important role in shaping the meaning you want your audience to take away.
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Text: More than Words
Text goes beyond words on a page. In digital spaces, text is “in motion,” conveying meaning through multimodal forms of communication.
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Communication is Key!
Communication takes many forms, some old and some new. Whether spoken or written, communication shapes how we view the world around us.
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Digital Rhetoric: Beyond the Virtual
Digital Rhetoric goes beyond the virtual. The infrastructure behind digital rhetoric plays an important role in how we communicate online.
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Digital Literacy and the 21st-Century Student
Digital literacy goes beyond zipping around a computer and includes critically analyzing the social context of digital communication.
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Digital: Carvings to Keyboards
The term “Digital” goes far beyond electronic. From the earliest forms of writing to texting, digital systems have shaped communication.