Our Class Blog
Come along as we explore Writing for Digital Spaces. New posts arrive weekly throughout the semester.
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Visual Rhetoric It’s All Around Us
Visual rhetoric shows how design through color, layout, and form persuades and shapes how people understand and respond in digital spaces.
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Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric: Understanding Text and Visual Rhetoric
Eyman shows that text in digital rhetoric includes words, images, video, and design, making every digital creation a persuasive message.
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Visual Rhetoric & Its Complexities
Visual rhetoric shows how images persuade and shape meaning. Every color, layout, and design choice carries intention.
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Writing the Soul: In Digital Text
Eyman’s digital text and Pixar’s soul both reveal that creation is alive an evolving process of connection, and shared meaning.
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Text as Social Action
Every word we post online is more than communication—it’s social action that shapes how we connect, influence, and build digital communities.
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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.
Categories
- About the Class (3)
- Preparation (Wk 0): Privacy & Agency on the Web (87)
- Topic 1: Digital Situationships (361)
- Topic 2: Power Distribution (112)
- Topic 3: Public Audiences, Public Authors (145)
- Uncategorized (79)
- Unused Topics from Past Semesters (404)
- Connections (11)
- Mediums (64)
- New Media (30)
- New Media and Literacy (77)
- Refining Terms (16)
- Speaking, Writing, and Literacy (75)
- Text (79)
- The (Late) Age of Print (57)
- Traditional Writing (9)
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