RIDE Blog Carnival #1—Call for Entries

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After returning to our course description and August-September conversations, I have sketched the following questions to prompt and guide our RIDE Blog Carnival #1.

  1. In light of at least one of the readings we have discussed so far this semester, how has your thinking about either of our priming questions changed? Those priming questions, again, are as follows: “What are digital rhetorics now?” and “What, as rhetoric and writing readers, writers, teachers, researchers, and learners might we do with digital rhetorics?”
  2. We began the semester with some acknowledgement that rhetoric in digital environments fans out into interests that are historical, critical, practical, theoretical, and pedagogical. Among these and in light of a reading, a conversation, or a nineties entry, which among these five dimensions of rhetoric in digital environments is, for you, increasing in significance? How so? Provide us with a specific example or context, as much as possible.
  3. Return to your nineties and select one you would like to extend. In doing so, strive to bring into view more vividly its relationship to one of the three purple lode stars: narrative & database, hypertext & hodology, or identity & avatar.

An in-progress draft is due in your Google Folder by Monday, October 2; the entry deadline for posting is Monday, October 9. Approximate scope should be 800-1000 words, though this is, of course, negotiable, as some entries may be working with multimodal elements.