Tag: Digital Rhetoric
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Is My Algorithm Making Decisions for Me?
Can algorithms influence more than your feed? Exploring how computer code shapes what we see, what we want, and how others judge us.
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Can we trust the Data they feed us?
A feminist perspective on how data can reinforce discrimination, silence marginalized communities, and why we must question who controls the numbers.
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Algorithms in Digital Rhetoric
New week, new blog post. This time I read “A Theory of Persuasive Computer Algorithms for Rhetorical Code Studies” by Estee Beck.
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Algorithms and the Companies Behind Them
The rise of technology has given compaines a degree of deniablity when it comes to what is searched shared, or censored.
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The Encrypted Text
Explore how digital platforms shape the way we think, communicate, learn, and view ourselves through McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.
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Just Scrolling? How Social Media Shapes Our Feelings
Just scrolling can influence more than we realize. This week’s reading explores how social media habits shape our emotions and responses to information.
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Social Media and Sneaky Rhetorics
I chose to read Sneaky Rhetorics, Habitual Media, and the Affective Politics of Lurking on Facebook because this focuses on social addiction.
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The Rhetorical Study of Code
A response to “Toward the Rhetorical Study of Digital Code” by Kevin Brock. Agreeing with Brock on the importance of code in today’s society.
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Who Really Designs Our Online Identity?
How much control do we have over our online identity? Kristin Arola explores how templates shape design and expression on social media.
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Our Online Identity isn’t fully ours
How much of our online identity is truly ours when social media templates shape how we express ourselves and how others perceive us?
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Digital Rhetoric and Behavior Change
In Ethos, Hexis, and the Case for Persuasive Technologies by Steve Holmes, he argues that behavior change can be digital rhetoric.
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The Importance of Technology, Hexis, and Ethos in Digital Rhetoric
Our smartphones aren’t just tools—they are actively shaping who we are. Here is my breakdown of Steve Holmes’s essay on digital rhetoric.
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The Realities of the Digital
There are risks in everything, especially in rhetoric in digital spaces unless one is careful with how they present themselves. Students be beware.
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Online Rhetorical Velocity
Referring to the concern for strategic appropriation by third parties in rhetorical instances. Rhetorical velocity is in writing in some way, shape or form
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Familiarity Does Not Equal Confidence
This post explores how students’ emotions can affect their comfort with multimodal assignments and sharing academic work with public audiences.