Tag: Doug Eyman
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Visual Rhetoric
Visual rhetoric is when images, colors, symbols, layouts, photos, typography, graphs, etc. are strategically used in digital spaces…
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Companies feat. HCI
I’ve asserted previously that companies must be held accountable if we want to the Web to improve, and I think HCI can help us achieve that.
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“New Media” is Not a Pet; Give It a Better Name
Naming a cat “Sir Rat the Third” is one thing, but calling new media “new” when it’s not just about being new is a whole other bad idea.
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Visual Rhetoric v. Study of Design
Why should things like written documents be in the study of design, when the layout of website interfaces is seen as visual rhetoric?
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Text: The Expansion Pack
Doug Eyman doesn’t want to limit the definition of “text” while it’s still growing. Yet, he spends five pages defining it. Why?
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Establishing digital rhetoric isn’t so easy
We are taught that the type of persuasion to use depends on our audience. Well, that just got hell of a lot harder with digital rhetoric.
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Digital literacy is an onion
Doug Eyman “defines” digital literacy in his article. But, really, all he gave us was a half-peeled onion and a lot of uncertainty.
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Context changes meaning
Just because Doug Eyman establishes a different meaning of “digital” does not mean what we’ve believed it to mean up until now is inaccurate.
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“Nothing is new under the sun”: It’s just intertexted differently
There’s no such thing as original ideas because of intertextuality. What makes them original is how they are incorporated.
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Digits and Digital
The article creates an understanding, our fingers or “digits” are to be considered digital as well since we use them to create our writing.
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Connecting Texts
Intertextuality is used everywhere. So many articles, books, and other literature pieces use other pieces that connect them to each other.
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Traditional Media vs New Media
Platforms where you can communicate, collaborate, and co-create content with other users and communities which isn’t possible with traditional media.
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Digital Rhetoric Synthesis
Looking back on Doug Eyman’s intertextually filled chapter and creating a synthesis on digital rhetoric and what it means.
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A Meme is Worth a Thousand Words
Have you heard of the popular idiom “a picture is worth a thousand words?” Well, I say a “meme is worth a thousand words.”
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‘Text’: Let’s Complicate the Term
Writing scholars love to complicate terms and give undergraduates headaches. Let’s discuss the term ‘text’ and how it’s much more than the physical medium.