Category: Unused Topics from Past Semesters
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Wk 9: The Old Restraining The New – Media Edition
The way we consume media is constantly changing due to concepts like remediation. Applen, Birkerts & Vila explore positive & negative effects.
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Books and Computers
Books tend to be seen having the words being set while computers are seen having the words be taken away. Both have perks and restraints.
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The Malleability of Human Creation
Human creation can come in many forms, yet express similar ideas between each of them. But, differently. Anyway, I nerd out some more here.
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The Age of Print
As times continue to change and the modern world becomes more digitized, how different is digital print from previous forms of writing?
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Remediating Media
An analysis of J.D. Applen’s chapter on Old and new media and how the remediation of media and technology develops over time.
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Text in Rhetoric
Criteria for digital text analysis include cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality.
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Text and Rhetoric
A brief reflection of Doug Eyman’s notorious work along with many moments of confusion and frustration when navigating this text.
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Text: What is it?
Text has come to have many different of meanings in today’s society. But what does text actually mean, in today’s digital age?
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Text: What is it?
Trying to define what text means through the lenses of multiple scholars while throwing in my own though what the world means.
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Text: What is It?
Doug Eyman looks at the complexities of what a text is and uses other theorists to formulate a definition behind the term.
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Definition of text
A text is a piece of written or oral communication, so how much do you know about it? Let’s get to know it through this blog!
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Do You Know What Text Is?
The word “text” is overwhelmingly complex. In today’s world, where we can’t seem to detach ourselves from our smartphones…
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Defining “Text”
“text” is something difficult to explain and describe. This blog goes over why and provides a possible explanation as well as Eyman’s.
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Wk 7: Texts are eve-ry-thing!
Eyman suggests that our understanding of “texts” it’s archaic now, and we need to modify our “text-thinking” to adapt it to digital rhetoric.