Paradigm Rhetoric

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)
 


Week 16

M 25-Apr Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and in­sights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     


    • » look­ing ahead: com­plet­ing revi­sion of project 2 for port­fo­lio (op­tional)




W 27-Apr hy­brid work  Blog En­try + Dis­cus­sion

  • due class time: blog en­try (200 words, infor­mal dis­cus­sion; me­dia, any form); 
    → see prompts be­low (choose 1)
     
  • Dur­ing class time: in com­ments be­low, post link; read classmate(s) en­try and dis­cuss
     
  • op­tional par­tic­i­pa­tion: com­pose re­ply to classmate’s en­try 

    → prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day:
    re­view syl­labus for course goals (and “Inter­est Inven­tory” memo?) + all course work + com­pile links (and screen­caps?)



F 29-Apr Last Class — Salu­ta­tions!

  • Dis­cuss: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (Exer­cise 5)
     
    → tuto­r­ial: con­vert­ing Word­Press site to sta­tic port­fo­lio (op­tional)
     


» op­tional: re­vised project + revis­ing memo/summary

    Revi­sion Memo (2−3 para­graphs): iden­tify spe­cific changes and com­pos­ing strate­gies, as well as how improv­ing the effectiveness/outcomes to­ward the par­tic­u­lar objec­tives — and any in­sights or self-assessment con­se­quently.
    → post memo file in D2L 


» Due (S 04/30): Port­fo­lio Re­flec­tion
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 









» Blog Entry 6:

  • 200 words (infor­mal dis­cus­sion) + me­dia (any form)
    infor­mal en­try; post on your blog by 12pm
  • Choose 1 prompt: 

» Prompt 1
Dis­cuss per­sonal world­view in terms of “par­a­digm rhetoric” (any/all top­ics):

    – primary/privileged form(s) of Knowl­edge. Sources & frames of ref­er­ence for this per­spec­tive
    – how Knowl­edge is com­mu­ni­cated or ap­plied (for­mally & infor­mally? indi­vid­u­ally & col­lec­tively?)
    – most visible/recognizable or promi­nent Insti­tu­tion? (gen­eral & spe­cific)
    – what is ex­cluded, omit­ted, left out, dis­counted, over­looked? (delib­er­ately or in­ci­den­tally)
    – what “counts as” Expe­ri­ence? (how viewed/regarded) And how Expe­ri­enced is under­stood, rep­re­sented, ex­pressed
    – how Iden­tity expe­ri­enced and per­formed (en­abled and con­strained?) indi­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively

As prepa­ra­tion, help­ful to re­call (and per­haps dis­cuss) the “per­sonal data­bases” and dis­courses ex­plored for Screen­Self­Por­trait:
Autobiography/Family, Dis­ci­pline (major/career field), Community/Social, Entertainment/Culture

As well, be sure to con­sider our units and projects: Belief-Story (Oral­ity), Information-Argument (Lit­er­acy), Affective-Expressive (Elec­tracy) in per­spec­tive of Appa­ra­tus The­ory
— as well as any world­views we have not cov­ered.
Be sure to con­clude with at least one in­sight (1−2 sen­tences?) about your world­view and (us­ing) the per­spec­tive of “par­a­digm rhetoric” this semes­ter and be­yond.


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» Prompt 2
Dis­cuss the poten­tial ben­e­fits and appli­ca­tion of “par­a­digm rhetoric” per­spec­tive be­yond the course — in con­texts edu­ca­tional, pro­fes­sional, public/civic, per­sonal, hy­brid, or other. While this can be spec­u­la­tive, ad­dress a spe­cific area rel­e­vant to you per­son­ally (espe­cially fu­ture courses or pro­fes­sional set­tings); brain­storm and con­sider sev­eral an­gles, includ­ing obvi­ous and indi­rect ap­pli­ca­tions.

while ours will be a philo­soph­i­cal ap­proach and per­spec­tive, as a writ­ing & rhetoric course our pri­mary inter­est is less about “what we (can) know” and more about “how we know” and more­over how forms of knowl­edge are cre­ated and con­veyed — oral, writ­ten, image/media, quan­ti­fied, non-linguistic, sen­sory.
→ Syl­labus (re­view?) 

You might con­sider and ref­er­ence our units and projects, par­tic­u­larly the Screen­Self­Por­trait as a “par­a­dig­matic” vir­tual collage-image “to think with” — conceptual-aesthetic means for greater self-awareness or self-representation, espe­cially in our cur­rent con­di­tions of Dataism and quan­tifi­ca­tion trends. As well, con­sider (and per­haps artic­u­late) the per­spec­tive of Appa­ra­tus The­ory and the the­o­riza­tion of Elec­tracy.

    Recall­ing your project and the out­comes, you might spec­u­late the poten­tial ben­e­fits, uses, appli­ca­tion, ef­fects, etc. for any­one (be­yond stu­dents in this class), con­cern­ing dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence. (And al­though help­ful to re­view your Poet­ics and Reflec­tion, avoid repeat­ing points from these; in­stead, extrap­o­late to broader con­text, per­haps iden­ti­fy­ing within or out­side edu­ca­tional set­tings…)

*Con­clude briefly (1−2 sen­tences) by spec­u­lat­ing what might change or be fur­ther en­abled, rec­og­niz­ing con­ven­tions (and “con­di­tions of pos­si­bil­ity”) via the par­a­digm rhetoric per­spec­tive — in spe­cific and/or broader ways, within this con­text (and oth­ers).


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**Note: option­ally, you can com­pose re­sponses to both prompts — with ex­tra en­try count­ing as bonus blog credit.







28 thoughts on “Paradigm Rhetoric”


  1. » Wednes­day 27-Apr Dis­cus­sion:

    Read classmate’s blog en­try. Then, post brief & con­ver­sa­tional re­sponse (2 sen­tences, in­for­mal); re­ply di­rectly to their ini­tial link com­ment.
    This is fairly open, as long as the re­sponse is pro­duc­tive, ex­tend­ing con­ver­sa­tion, and above-all re­spect­ful (any replies that are not will not re­ceive credit and might be deleted if egre­gious or bla­tantly un­pro­duc­tive)

    → sug­gested re­sponses:
    note any points of sim­i­lar­ity, ex­plicit or im­plicit;
    iden­tify ex­am­ples, from ex­pe­ri­ence, ob­ser­va­tions, learn­ing (classes or oth­er­wise);
    dis­cuss any ideas suggested/inferred but not ad­dressed di­rectly;
    pro­pose other points of con­sid­er­a­tion (whether al­ter­na­tive or fur­ther);
    pose a ques­tion, for fur­ther dis­cus­sion

    *if re­spond­ing to Blog En­try dis­cussing prompt other than one you ad­dressed,
    best strat­egy might sim­ply be to
    iden­tify what the en­try com­pelled you to think about or rec­og­nize —
    es­pe­cially if in­sight, new per­spec­tive, al­ter­na­tive view, etc.
     
     
    → as usual, bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion for re­spond­ing to more than one en­try (2 max)

    *Please do not re­ply to a com­ment that has al­ready re­ceived 2 re­sponses (choose an­other).
     

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    1. I com­pletely agree with when you say that “[ex­pe­ri­ence] can be un­der­stood and ex­pressed in any form, which I think is what makes it hard to de­fine” be­cause like I’ve said in my blog post that to de­fine ex­pe­ri­ence is dif­fi­cult enough with­out re-using the word “ex­pe­ri­enced”. I’m in­ter­ested in the par­al­lel be­tween what ex­pe­ri­ence is and what knowl­edge is be­cause at first thought, they seem to share the same boat, but rather have a domino ef­fect on one an­other.

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    2. I com­pletely agree and like the way you phrased all the pos­si­ble ways peo­ple ex­pe­ri­ence things. I also like that you men­tioned while there are mul­ti­ple types of knowl­edge, some takes more im­por­tance than oth­ers.

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    3. I like what you said about this “paradigm-rhetoric” ap­proach to world­views be­ing a use­ful tool. In my post I also men­tioned that this is only a tool, and not it­self a world­view. This tool pro­vides us with a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of knowl­edge and dif­fer­ent means of ob­tain­ing it. It does not, how­ever, pro­vide us with a world­view. As Karl men­tioned in his post, an ex­am­ple of a world­view could be Democ­racy, which is much more than a be­lief in a cer­tain knowledge-obtaining method­ol­ogy. Democ­racy holds that all peo­ple should be treated equally, for ex­am­ple, which is in no way re­lated to knowl­edge; it is a moral phi­los­o­phy, not a log­i­cal one.

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      2. Whoops! I just no­ticed I said Karl and not Mar­cus! My bad. And I also no­ticed I sound like like a to­tal butthead on this fo­rum so I hope every­one knows upon read­ing my posts that I only in­tend to fur­ther the dis­cus­sion at hand, and not in any way to be ar­gu­men­ta­tive with any­one :)

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    1. I like your dis­cus­sion about how ex­pe­ri­ences can dif­fer in dif­fer­ent “en­vi­ron­ments”. I’ve never thought of it that way. I think that it is an in­ter­est­ing topic to dis­cuss, and I think that can al­ter or fur­ther what it mean to have a world­view, that is a very fun in­sight.

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    2. I also liked that you men­tioned that ex­pe­ri­ence is dif­fer­ent in dif­fer­ent en­vi­ron­ments and with that in mind, I am also cu­ri­ous if ex­pe­ri­ence is also dif­fer­ent time frames–for ex­am­ple: is some­thing I ex­pe­ri­enced ten years ago go­ing to have the same ef­fect as some­thing I ex­pe­ri­ence to­mor­row? Is ma­tu­rity go­ing to mend that ex­pe­ri­ence is any­way?

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    3. I like your ideas that an ex­pe­ri­ence is in­di­vid­ual, and no­body can have the same ex­pe­ri­ence. It re­ally means that this world is dif­fer­ent per per­son and means that no­body is go­ing to be the same af­ter even an iden­ti­cal ex­pe­ri­ence.

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    1. I def­i­nitely agree with all of the points that you made in your blog post. I re­ally liked you dis­cus­sion about what ex­em­pli­fies an ex­pe­ri­ence, and how our ex­pe­ri­ences can more or less lack fun­da­men­tals, but that is what makes it per­sonal. I’ve learned a lot about what is con­sid­ered an ex­pe­ri­ence and how it is inter-laced into our daily lives which is ei­ther quan­ti­fied, pri­vate, or pub­lic.

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    2. Your view of ex­pe­ri­ence is in­ter­est­ing. In gen­eral ex­pe­ri­ence is in­ter­est­ing be­cause in our na­ture we strive to lead in­ter­est­ing lives. Ex­pe­ri­ence is every­where, hap­pens every­day, every sec­ond, even in our sleep. It is dif­fi­cult to put ex­pe­ri­ence into words and I agree. I would say if life is a glass, then ex­pe­ri­ence is wa­ter con­tin­u­ally fill­ing that glass.

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    3. I like this way of think­ing, the data­bases and project 3 every­one cre­ated re­ally shoes pieces of peo­ples ex­pe­ri­ences and self im­age through unique forms of me­dia that put a fresh look on who we are and how we see the world.

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    4. “A photo, a gif, an essay–all of these things can [rep­re­sent] our ex­pe­ri­ence, as well as help let other[s] un­der­stand how we ex­press our ex­pe­ri­ence.”

      In­deed! I think if the broad point of this class can be summed up in a sen­tence, you nailed it with this one.

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    5. I like that you in­cor­po­rated your blog piece from an­other as­sign­ment. It looks ath­let­i­cally pleas­ing to the eye and I like your con­tent of self-reflection on how we use so­cial me­dia to put out our ex­pe­ri­ence and show a part of us.

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    1. I like how you’ve iden­ti­fied Democ­racy as an ex­am­ple of a world­view. It con­tains in­for­ma­tion about moral phi­los­o­phy which is not dis­cussed in paradigm-rhetoric. How­ever, Democ­racy falls short of be­ing a com­plete world­view. It does not con­tain any religious/spiritual be­liefs, or any be­liefs about which “forms of knowl­edge” are more im­por­tant than oth­ers. If a world­view is the fil­ter through which peo­ple per­ceive the world, then surely these other be­liefs are com­po­nents of a world­view as well. There­fore, an ex­am­ple of a world­view would be “Democ­racy PLUS [other com­po­nents of the world­view].” Per­haps I’m us­ing a de­f­i­n­i­tion of world­view which is not in­tended to be used in this con­text. But on my blog post I’ve posted a de­f­i­n­i­tion from the dic­tio­nary to which I am ad­her­ing.

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    1. I like how you use your own per­sonal ex­am­ple of be­ing a naval of­fi­cer to show how power dy­nam­ics af­fect how we learn and com­mu­ni­cate with one an­other. hold­ing the power vs be­ing a sub­or­di­nate is a big con­tribut­ing fac­tor to our con­fi­dence and force­ful­ness when con­vey­ing in­for­ma­tion and knowl­edge. I liked the post a lot!

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