Rhetorical Situation
Act II “Database Aesthetics“
Project: Group-Curating Wrap-Up
— First component: Rhetorical Analysis
- reminders:
- Continue/increase GroupSite curatory posting!
— use social networking to attract readers (imagined/new audience? - Review Group discussion Friday — rhetorical strategies/implications & audience(s)
M 09-Mar Discuss: Prada, “Web 2.0 as a new context for artistic practices” Fibreculture 14 (2009)
- issues/focus: new context (Web 2.0) for artists & public; discourse/rhetoric, institutional markers; creativity (“amateurization”? Web & artistry?)
- looking ahead: analyzing model site/publication considering these topics/aspects (rhetorical factors, activities, implications, consequences)
W 04-Mar Activity: Rhetorical Analysis warm-up
- read/use compiled guides — PDF
— additional warm-up questions below (for in-class analysis)
→ Post example publications/sites to analyze during class (use for assignment)
e.g. Colossal, Hyperallergic; medium-specific sites?
- continue discussing Prada article (from Fibreculture)
F 13-Mar Focus: Sites/publications — to analyze (for assignment) and to model for group curating
Due (S 14-Mar): Rhetorical Analysis (project 2 component)
- 10 points; 500–700 words (of analysis, omitting process); plus visual media
- assignment page
Warm-up Activity: Mediated Communication Analysis
(Questions considering Rhetoric + Design)
- — Consider the following questions for generating ideas specific to the website/platform you choose for your Rhetorical Analysis
- Who uses this platform and for what purposes? (“official”/stated purpose? common uses?)
What other important factors surround the audience’s use of it? - What types of communication does the application enable, enhance, or limit?
- What enhancements or limitations result from the design or technical aspects, such as default settings and/or template? (What is possible or precluded by these settings?)
- What forms or genres of writing from previous historical eras appear in the communication? (Or, how do the present forms uniquely differ from previous types?)
What elements of composition does the application employ in order to facilitate this communication? - How does the application employ properties unique to digital media or to Website/Internet?
What functions / effects of these appear within communication exchange or participation?
(not to answer in your response):