Rhetoric in Digital Environments

Rhythms Made to Rupture and Bodies Made to Break/Dance: What Happens When a DJ and a Douen Walk Into a (Crowded) Void?

Jenna Zan3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

The DJ as digital griot re/de/sutures fragments of cultures whose totality has been elided by—and eludes—Western ontologies, perpetually connecting black rhetorical traditions with the technologies and possibilities of multimedia writing. Digital griots’ use of “arranging, layering, sampling, and remixing are inventions . . . binding time as they move the crowd and create and maintain…

On Thingification and Technological Takeover: The Roles Humans Play

Temitope Ojedele3 years ago12 mins

We have been on Han for a while now, and I may say I’m a big fan. But a thought suddenly came to my mind while reading “The Information Regime,” and it gained ground. Han speaks of technology as though it has no calculative human connection at all. I do not agree. Yes, technology is…

(in)significant existence

Sahajiya Nath3 years ago01 mins

Han’s texts have made me rethink the relevance of human values rooted in cultural identities. Although I spend almost all my day in digital environments, as a millennial, born and raised in a Third-world country, I am not a digital native. I have experience and memories of rhetorical practices outside the digital jungle. The all-encompassing…

Reclaiming Ghanaian Rhetorical Tradition in DCR

Gideon Kwawukumey3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Culture and rhetoric are inextricably intertwined because most of our African cultures, particularly Ghanaian cultures, are rhetorical. Haas (2008) looks at cultural rhetoric as a study of “everyday rhetoric and writing practices of specific cultural groups” and the historical, socio-cultural political context that shape those practices. Going forward, I hope to see a Digital Cultural…

Another World, Another Universe: Griots and Their Hypertexts in 80’s and 90’s Ball Culture

Julia Unger3 years ago3 years ago013 mins

In Adam Bank’s book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, he uses ideas of multimodal rhetoric and rhetors as community leaders to help us understand how DJs occupy a space outlined in West African culture for the “griot,” a role Banks defines as a “master of both words and music who is…

Digital philia

Molly Ryan3 years ago01 mins

We are the product of ancient philia, oriented to a discipline because of a certain affection, held lightly or tightly. We are brought together in communities because of habitus, destined paths we cannot circumvent. I’d argue that the draw to rhetoric, the most ancient of all habitus, is a special call indeed. So how does…

Digital Rhetoric as Rhetoric of Survivance in Embracing Social Justice and Inclusiveness of internalized and indigenous knowledge

Gideon Kwawukumey3 years ago3 years ago08 mins

Digital rhetoric is a negotiation of information—and its historical, social, economic, and political contexts and influences—to affect change of survivance (survival and resistance) in the network spaces. Despite the space being dominated by specific dominant cultures, scholars, both indigenous and internalized, of digital cultural rhetorics have responded with research methodologies and inclusive rhetorical paths of…

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DJs as Technical Communicators: The Rhetorical Synchronicity of Hip Hop Culture

Rhythms Made to Rupture and Bodies Made to Break/Dance: What Happens When a DJ and a Douen Walk Into a (Crowded) Void?

On Thingification and Technological Takeover: The Roles Humans Play

(in)significant existence

Reclaiming Ghanaian Rhetorical Tradition in DCR

Another World, Another Universe: Griots and Their Hypertexts in 80’s and 90’s Ball Culture

Digital philia

Digital Rhetoric as Rhetoric of Survivance in Embracing Social Justice and Inclusiveness of internalized and indigenous knowledge