Tuesday, February 9: Digital Rhetoric, Part 1

Reading

Eyman, D. (2015). Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Read online at links below. Physical copy on reserve at Woodruff Library.

• Introduction
• One: Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric
• Two: Digital Rhetoric: Theory

Writing

Live tweet.

Discussion lead.

Preparing

Pedagogical Probe 1 due in two weeks on February 23.

In Class

1. View (oldies). Think about how elements of these videos elaborate or exemplify Eyman’s claims about digital rhetoric and texts. What are some elements for critique?

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

A Vision of Students Today

2. Jing Activity

Develop a claim about a digital text or texts that you can inscribe and distribute via screencast. You might produce a video along the lines of the ones linked above, conduct a real time rhetorical analysis of a digital artifact, or take some other approach. Share your link from screencast.com in this google doc.

3. Discuss pedagogical probe assignment.

See connected resources.

• Assignment-sheet guidelines.
• Syllabus guidelines.
• First-year writing syllabus template. (and Emory first-year writing website)

4. Discuss readings.