Category: Unused Topics from Past Semesters
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Multimodality Is The New Novel
Multimodal is the blending of words, images, sound, and design to create interactive, shared meaning between creators and audiences.
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What’s Text
Text is interpreted and experienced. It’s part of the smaller moving parts that make up Digital rhetoric. More than just words count as text.
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Evolution and Circulation of Text
Eyman places much emphasis on the importance to always remember how text will be circulated and its eventual evolution.
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Text, Redefined
This reflection explores the evolving definition of “text” from traditional print works to multimodal forms shaped by digital media.
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The Living Text: Understanding Digital Rhetoric in a Connected World
Digital rhetoric and text shape meaning through design, interaction, and circulation, showing that all digital communication is alive.
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Waves of Knowledge: Old Media to New
Words are waves of energy, flowing from voice to ink to screen, shaping how we know, think, and create in a digital age.
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Human tone
Jokes are so much funnier when it’s told by a human rather than a machine, in a world of AI human voices are starting to be appreciated a bunch more.
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Old Media VS New Media
New media blurs writing and speaking, making digital literacy essential for evaluating sources and sharing information responsibly.
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Evolution of How We Share Knowledge
Humans & the way we communicate has evolved. Oral storytelling to writing & digital media, this expands how knowledge is shared & understood.
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Impostor syndrome: Finding My Voice
Using my voice in the classroom helped me overcome impostor syndrome, showing how orality shapes confidence and professional identity.
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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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It Was All A Game Of Telephone Before
Writing isn’t just communication; it reshapes thought, preserves knowledge, and frees ideas from memory, allowing them to last and grow.
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How Media Shapes Thought: From Speaking to Digital Literacy
Media influences how we think, learn, and communicate, shaping diverse digital literacy skills and highlighting the many ways people process information.
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New Media, Old Media What’s the Difference?
This blog explores writing as a form of technology as it extends human memory. It distinguishes between written language and computer language
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“Speaking, Writing, and Literacy”
Applen helps us to understand that digital rhetoric is linked to shift that has taken place in the realm of writing and literacy.