Reflections on Hybrid Culture
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This is the course blog for multimodal rhetoric courses (WRT 614 Multimodal Rhetoric and WRT 302 Writing for New Media) instructed by Cynthia Davidson at Stony Brook University, Program in Writing and Rhetoric.
Remediation is literally everywhere, which ironically can make it difficult to talk about in fresh and unique ways. For me, remediation leads into the next module on our list–Bodies, Interrupted–in which we look at how digital communication reshapes the way that we think about presence and absence, especially when it comes to the body. One …
This semester marks a fresh start for this course, including a gentle renaming from Digital Rhetoric to Multimodal Rhetoric. When I first taught the class, the idea of digital rhetoric was distinct in some ways from traditional rhetoric, although (as we will see while reading the course textbook on digital rhetoric by Douglas Eyman) it …
How do we define literacy–our own and others’–in a world that is infused with multimodal (defined as multiple modalities including the visual, aural, and interactive) rhetoric? This is a survey course and a workshop; we will explore a very broad range of issues related to the rhetoric of productions in all kinds of media, blog …
