Though digital rhetoric on its own is a recent concept, it is part of a greater rhetorical tradition—one that goes back centuries. As technology has changed throughout time, rhetoric itself has changed. Before written texts, rhetoric had a focus on oratory. Paper texts shifted the focus towards the written word. In the modern era, things […]
As explained in the previous post, digital rhetoric can be a complex term that is hard to understand practically. For examples of what exactly digital rhetoric can mean and is, one needs to go no further than YouTube. In this TedTalk, the speaker explains what memes are and how they are a form of digital […]
Digital rhetoric is a hard term to define. It is broad and wide ranging. Despite being contemplated heavily by academics for decades, there is no precise and singular definition. Douglas Eyeman sums up the term in a relatively painless way with “digital rhetoric is perhaps most simply defined as the application of rhetorical theory (as […]
The first thing that comes to mind when I hear the phrase “digital rhetoric” is how we write online in a digital space. That encapsulates writing all over the internet—blogs, social media, videos, websites, etc. Specifically, digital rhetoric focuses on the difference between traditional print media and online media. The nature of the internet/the digital […]
Digital Rhetoric 