Ashbarros

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Date registered: January 9, 2013

Latest posts

  1. Literature: An Electronic Context & New Valuation — March 25, 2013
  2. Animal Crossing ~ Exploring the Rhetorical Frameworks of Video Games — March 8, 2013
  3. Into the Wild: The Re-Inspired Writing Process — March 1, 2013
  4. An Introduction to Data Display: Analyzing the Rhetorical Value of Visual Organization — February 15, 2013
  5. View from the Meta-Plateau: Examining Adolph’s Elementary Modes of Electronic Text Analysis — February 8, 2013

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  1. An Introduction to Data Display: Analyzing the Rhetorical Value of Visual Organization — 3 comments
  2. The Non-Stuff of DisneyLands: Sustaining Attention in an Information Saturated World — 3 comments
  3. Shadow of the Ass: A Brief Lesson in Rhetoric, Plus Examination of Our Susceptibility to Rhetorical Power — 1 comment
  4. New Perspectives: The Dawning of Digital Scholarship — 1 comment

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Mar 25

Literature: An Electronic Context & New Valuation

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Electronic Text, Paradigmatic shift

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  Duke Professor N. Katherine Hayles endeavors to illustrate the context of electronic literature, and thereby its true significance. Electronic literature’s context has two aspects: (1) The printed literary tradition that electronic literature derives from, and (2) The new technology enabling the means and nature of electronic literature. The latter affects how literary communities are …

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Mar 08

Animal Crossing ~ Exploring the Rhetorical Frameworks of Video Games

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Ian Bogost, video game researcher, theorist, and designer, analyzes the messages and claims made by video games and the rhetorical framework through which those messages are conveyed. In “The Rhetoric of Video Games,” Bogost unpacks the social messages that are framed in the video game Animal Crossing. In Animal Crossing, players explore debt and commerce …

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Mar 01

Into the Wild: The Re-Inspired Writing Process

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  Virginia Woolf made a big deal about having a room of her own. But wireless mobility is pushing writers into wider environments, not only transforming the relationship between writers and their means of research and expression, but that expression itself. “Writing in the Wild, A Paradigm for Mobile Composition” discusses the value and possibilities …

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Feb 15

An Introduction to Data Display: Analyzing the Rhetorical Value of Visual Organization

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  In persuading an audience, clarity is crucial. Shorten audience’s comprehension process by simplifying your information in visual display. By displaying versus describing your persuasive data, meaning is obvious. Persuasiveness needn’t any silver-tongued tricks. Charles Kostelnick, author of the professional article, “The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity”, suggests that straight-foward, visual displays …

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Feb 08

View from the Meta-Plateau: Examining Adolph’s Elementary Modes of Electronic Text Analysis

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Electronic text analysis gives researchers means of interpreting words and their arrangements on a meta-level. After all, symbolic meaning (the heart of every letter and syllable of all human language) is what makes and connects us as human beings. This kind of study has shown that lexis and grammar do not exist independently from one …

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Feb 01

New Perspectives: The Dawning of Digital Scholarship

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What is language? Everything, for people. We are symbolic creatures; forging meaning from phenomena is what differentiates us from algae and badgers. Language is our mode of encapsulating and transmitting that meaning. Researchers are now able to analyze our intellectual products–such as literature, and the ways language is used in various disciplines–because of digital tools, …

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Jan 25

The Non-Stuff of DisneyLands: Sustaining Attention in an Information Saturated World

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  In his essay, The Economics of Attention, Richard Lanham examines the evolving modalities of our world as it quickly habituates itself towards digitalization. Our physical world is dissolving into a non-reality of subsidized dairy cows picturesquely grazing in Swiss countrysides, of reserving Mt. Everest to challenge its iconic human inhospitality. As our world became …

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Jan 18

Cultivating Persuasiveness: A Process for Building Rhetorical Eloquence

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Rhetoric

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The 5 Canons of Oration, from Cicero’s De Oratore, can be used as a blueprint for organizing persuasiveness: inventio ~ finding what you want to say, your argument dispositio ~ arrangement of saying it Five sub-components for building rhetorical power into your argument’s disposition: -> Exordium (introduction) -> Narratio (statement of the case) -> Divisio/Partitio …

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Jan 11

Shadow of the Ass: A Brief Lesson in Rhetoric, Plus Examination of Our Susceptibility to Rhetorical Power

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Persuasiveness means having an awareness for influencing others’ opinions. Rhetoric, as Aristotle famously philosophized, is a means of persuasion. Written and oral rhetoric anticipates the probable outcomes of opinion, given a compelling deliverance of information that particularly relates to the type of audience. There are three categories of rhetoric, epideictic (ceremonial), forensic, and deliberative (political), corresponding …

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Jan 09

Damning the Metaphor: Dr. Danah Boyd on Re-Interpreting Blogs & Blogging Culture

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Dr. Danah Boyd, a scholar on media communications and “other intersections between technology and society,” as well as a contributor to the development of Blogger, notes that Internet platforms which furnish blogging tools have set the formal definitions for blogging. For most Internet cruisers, “blog” is a term synonymous with the concept of “public journaling.” …

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