Title: | Dgtl Rhet & Publ Life 21st Cen |
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Course Section Number: | RHE-370-02 |
Department: | Rhetoric |
Description: | FACE TO FACE COURSE. AVAILABLE TO VIRTUAL LEARNERS. Digital Rhetoric and Public Life in 2021. 2021 marks the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Our time is one of digital revolution: our communication is now regularly mediated by code, networks, big data, and screens. Indeed, the digital has fundamentally reoriented public life. How do our technologies-smart phones, computers, televisions, etc.-and our socially networked media platforms-Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, etc.-invite and preclude productive discourse? In answering this question, this seminar style course will introduce students to core concepts and theories in digital rhetoric, including network, algorithm, information, archive, and circulation. It will, too, invite a rethinking of core rhetorical processes as they operate in our digital society, including the ways we read and critique texts, how we compose and deliver information, and what it means to civically engage in our communities in an unprecedented moment of pandemic, protest, partisanship, and planetary stress. Students in this class will compose an original research project and will be expected to read* diligently and participate actively in course discussions. Conversations in class will be tailored around contemporary events that have unfolded in 2020 (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic, protests in response to racism and police brutality) and that will continue to shape the contours of public life in the coming years (e.g., politics and partisanship, climate change). *Please note that several of the required course texts will be freely available as eBooks through the Lilly Library. |
Credits: | 1.00 |
Start Date: | January 25, 2021 |
End Date: | May 11, 2021 |
Meeting Information: |
01/25/2021-05/03/2021 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:10AM - 11:00AM, Fine Arts Center, Room S206
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Faculty: | Geraths, Cory |
Requisite Courses: | Prerequisite: FRT-101 (Freshman Tutorial). |
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