March 27

I. Opening Announcements

II.  Overview of Next Project (click here) and Monday's Assignment

Take the notes and writing that you did for the last classes and now make a case about digital rhetoric and our social world today (based on the issue you read for today).  Come to class with at least 100-150 words of an opening paragraph that you will read aloud as a speech to a few classmates.  This writing needs APA in-text citations and an APA bibliography. This is Assignment #17 for the course (worth 2 points).  ​

Extra
​Credit

If you create a live tedtalk, you will receive 2 extra credit points.
If you create a video with voiceover, you will receive 4 extra credit points.

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III. Back to DIGITAL RHETORICS w/ Anita Sarkessian

2011 (Feminist Frequency started in 2009)

2017 (season II for this series)

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1. What do you think? Is this still relevant?  Why or why not?
2. What do you imagine Sarkeesian's critics say? 
3. How do you think her youtube channel impacts her life today?

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IV. Your Turn (in five groups)

1. What are the social dilemmas and dangers of digital rhetoric? Why? List everything from your articles, Safiya Nobel, and Sara Wachter-Boettcher 
2. Why should we do about these dilemmas?
3. Finish this thought:
If You Come To this Website and Start Catchin Feelings, _________________________
​(give at least 3 suggestions)

On your charts, jot down and draw your responses to the three questions at the left.

  Be creative with these charts... and get down as much as possible. 

​Use these ideas for your assignment next week.

         Basics

• Who is the speaker(s)?  Why them?
• What is the goal?
• Who is the targeted audience?
• What is the message and why?
• Who are the people involved?  Why them?
• What are the visuals? Why them?

          Aristotelian Aspects

• ethos? (credentials and experiences; why are you convinced?)
• logos? (what are the facts?)
• pathos? ( humor and other emotion; what do you feel?)
• identification? (how do other people relate?) 
• repetition? (what are the repeated stories and examples?) 
• kairos? (how is the moment in which we live a key factor?)​

        MORE

• Locution: What was actually said?
• Illocution: What was implied?  How so?
• Perlocution: What are the psychological and social impacts?

*Anadiplosis is a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence.