Writing for Digital Audiences

Catalog description

A study of theories and concepts of writing and rhetoric in digital media with emphasis on the uses of written, aural, and visual media in digital spaces, such as websites, social media, infographics, digital video, apps, advertisements, and other digital technologies. Topics examined include new literacy and multiliteracy studies, visual literacy and rhetoric, technorhetorics, and multimedia participation, design, and creation. Students further examine digital infrastructure, from hardware to socioeconomic factors of authorship/audience, including racial disparity.