Digital rhetorics is:
The use of rhetorics in a digital sphere.
The ability to persuade through texts online, as well as images, videos, games, and other digital mediums.
The knowledge of how to use writing and rhetoric to inform or persuade a specific audience to a specific purpose.
The understanding of how to best deliver a message in the digital sphere.
The ability to know your audience and how they access information digitally (through a mobile device, computer, gaming device, etc.).
The ability to manipulate a message across multiple spheres (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, a blog, etc.).
Being able to not only contribute ideas but interact with others in a digital sphere.
Understanding how o manipulate messages digitally to convey the appropriate message (incorporating emoticons to "lighten" a message, etc.).
The way text and the relationship between writer, author, reader and contributor evolve when text moves to a digital sphere.
Good start to your characteristics of dr: what about medium? Does a digital rhetor need to understand the form of the specific medium?
ReplyDeleteI think knowing the form of the medium would help, but it's simple now-a-days to learn the technology as you go, especially within online spaces, such as blogs, social media, or sites that allow you to contribute information. You can't be an effective digital rhetor without knowing the medium, however. So while you're learning the medium, you may not be considered a "good" rhetor?
ReplyDeleteI guess that depends on how much rapport/credibility/etc. on brings into a space...if a group is willing to overlook the "baby steps" and help the person learn to walk in that space because they offer something other than medium development, it might not matter rhetorically, but over time it definitely would influence their credibility. However, if the community does not recognize any other form of credibility "newbies" "noobs" will be in for quite a ride. FE, look at how many students brand professors as unintelligent because they may not be rhetorically fluent in digital spaces.
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