Update 11/30

To put my project to work, I must decide where it will exist in digital space. I've decided to upload my final video to YouTube because it is easy to do and easily accessible. I don't plan to publicize it on FaceBook or anything, I just want it considered in our class. The YouTube video...

Update 11/14

Today I rented a camera and sent the following email to my intended interviewees: Good morning, fellow Moravian population, I am making a video for my Digital Rhetoric and Writing course in which I would like to make aware the subtle psychological dangers of social media, namely unconsciously exhibiting narcissism or becoming narcissistic through routine...

Update 11/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvbh2_Oh94 This is the kind of video format I would like to follow. I would like to have more artifacts to show my interviewees, and I would like for my questions for them to be heard by the audience, but other than that, this is more or less what I would follow. I don't exactly...

Multimodal Project Update 11/7

I intend to read the following poem to my interviewees and record their reactions and thoughts.   Javiar Ávila: Facebook Poem If a tree falls in the forest and it doesn't take a selfie did it really fall? I am just like you, only better. I have 2,700 more friends than you and I baked...

Moxley: Rogerian Argument Moxley makes statements about worldview, and how it is becoming increasingly complex and diverse. This being said, Moxley explains that reaching an audience can not be as simple as providing your thesis in the beginning of your writing; "modern readers tend to be particularly contentious when you insist on assertions that they...

Social Media Discourse Ecology Map

[Image of ecology map to come] My chosen ecology is the recent movement seen in the NFL, where players kneel for the playing of the national anthem as a protest to police brutality to black Americans. Through making this ecology map, I have learned that there is more to this subject than an 'agree' and 'disagree'...

Social Media Discourse: #takeaknee

I tried to find posts from all sides on this topic. It turns out that there are sides that say more than "this is right" or "this is wrong". These sides use this movement to draw parallels to other movements. There are sides that think white people should be allowed to take a knee for...

Project #2 Draft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc Kony 2012. We all remember when this video came out. This video, in my opinion, is the most powerful example of how a specimen of digital rhetoric can persuade an audience on a global scale. I say 'persuade an audience', but I should clarify that this persuasion, which was crafted excellently, lasted to for...

Project #2 Proposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc This video. We all remember when this video came out. I'm proposing this video because it is one that went absolutely viral for two months at max, and quickly became a joke after being critiqued for giving alternate facts and asking for viewers to buy and decorate cities with a box of junk (such...

Collaborative Canon Project

The following is a link to our groups prezi on the rhetorical canon of invention https://prezi.com/zhackhetifir/edit/?auth_key=rlxeday&follow=ddzj-_nmnwsm#2_30863873 My contributions to this prezi were slide organization, video-finding, and typing for some slides (specifically slides 4, 7-10, and some editing on other slides).