digital rhetoric

Submitted by Byron Hawk on February 10, 2009 - 1:38pm

I read Collin Brooke’s “Weblogs as Deictic Systems” for class today. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve read it and it is really resonating well this time around. I really like the way he is bringing together C.Miller and D.Watts to articulate the development and movements of small world networks (such as blogs) as simultaneously centripetal and centrifugal. The movement centers on deixis, or the continually shifting now, as a species of epideictic rhetoric.

Gaza

Submitted by Byron Hawk on February 7, 2009 - 6:14pm

I'm teaching an undergraduate digital rhetoric course right now so I've been on the lookout for good video examples. I found this one over at my colleague's blog Arab Woman Progressive Voice. I think it provides a good example of an effective low-fi approach, something that my students could replicate.

National Rebirths

Submitted by Byron Hawk on February 6, 2009 - 1:52pm

Here's a new trailer for the most recent version of "Rebirth of a Nation" (which is a remix of DW Griffith's "Birth of a Nation"). RBN is on DVD and DJ Spooky is traveling around giving screenings of it. The trailer is a nice piece of digital rhetoric. While surfing Youtube for it, I came across two other videos of interest. Re Birth of a Nation, a video on Liberia's political strife, and a DJ Spooky lecture from UNC.

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Submitted by Jim Brown on October 1, 2008 - 9:16pm

Dylan...marked up:

Link via Language Log.

Clemson Podcast: KDM Digital

Submitted by Jim Brown on April 25, 2008 - 9:50am

Victor Vitanza, The Blogora's own Cynthia Haynes, and some others at Clemson have launched a podcast called "KDM Digital." KDM stands for "Knowing, Doing, Making" and is a nod to Aristotle.

I've only listened to the first episode thus far, which provides some background on how the podcast was conceived (we get to hear a behind the scenes discussion amongst KDM collaborators.) In other episodes, there are interviews with Byron Hawk and Thomas Rickert about their new books.

Slow blogging

Submitted by Jim Brown on February 3, 2008 - 3:24pm

Andrew Revkin at the NYTimes Dot Earth blog asks whether we need a "slow blogging" movement (analogous to the "slow food" movement). His concern is that the "instaweb" completely disregards context, and this means that information flies around regardless of its initial meaning. My question is this: Do we need slow-blogging or do we need faster interpretive rhetorics?

Ethos online

Submitted by ddd on March 11, 2007 - 9:24am

The tech section of the NYTimes has an article about companies devoted to helping you craft a sexy, desirable online ethos/profile. Very interesting shift in necessary rhetorical training and savvy. From the article:

Businesses like Dating-Profile.com, ProfileHelper.com and E-Cyrano.com say they will help turn a stale personal profile for dating Web sites into eloquent and catchy advertisements, writing the words for you. They will even help clients sift through prospective dates and start an initial e-mail conversation. Depending on the company and the services used, prices may range from $39 to $2,000. ... Other companies, like LookBetterOnline.com and SingleShots.com, sell professional photo shoots and retouching of existing pictures for people to post online.

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Web 2.0 video

Submitted by ddd on February 7, 2007 - 8:50am

If you teach digital rhetorics, you might be intersted in thisyoutube clip: The Machine Is Us/ing Us. Might also be interested in this write up about it in Inside Higher Ed.