Digital Rhetoric

Catalog description

Digital Rhetoric focuses on the design and circulation of digital artifacts in 3 primary areas: websites, social media networks, and digital content production (text, audio, images, video, etc.). In this course, students will design and write the content for a website to provide resources or information for a social movement/campaign, a hobby/area of interest, or for a creative/artistic endeavor. In other words, students will (1) produce digital content that is (2) shared through a website and (3) promoted through a social network. These pragmatic activities provide the framework for understanding rhetorical theory as it relates to digital environments, and how rhetorical theory informs the design, circulation, and attention economics of digital production.