Blog Carnival – Rhetoric in Digital Environments

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

Julia Unger1 year ago1 year 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 Rhetoric as New Rhetoric: Creating Multiple Rhetorical Paths Toward Inclusive Epistemologies

Temitope Ojedele1 year ago1 year ago010 mins

I figured I would respond to question one, which is also connected to question three on the “blog carnival” prompt, as I intend to revisit some of the responses I have made in the past few weeks in my nineties to answer the question, “What are digital rhetorics now?” and “What, as rhetoric and writing…