This Ted Talk below showed the relationship between memes and digital rhetoric and how they work with each other. Overall, memes adapt with “societal values” and are a type of form of communicative digital rhetoric. He also states that “User interaction which creates viral sensations of a picture as the framework” and this relates to the Interactivity which is within digital rhetoric. Interactivity in Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice is “communication that includes some form of reciprocal message exchange involving mediation and occurring between [an organization] and users, between users and the site text, or between users and other users” (Eyman).
2. In this video, experts are interviewed and asked the general question, what is digital rhetoric? Them being experts in this topic, they elaborated a lot on what they view it as. Viewing the different perspectives can help one form their own idea of what it means as well. For example, some of the experts stated “Digital rhetoric is the transferring of discourse”, “Discovering available means of persuasion digitally”, and “Digital rhetoric is a core, a central theory, and a central method”. This video gives specific examples of what digital rhetoric is and how it is applied in reality.
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This video basically breaks down the significant parts of digital rhetoric in which it “persuades, informs, inspires, and entertains.” One uses digital rhetoric when they are simply just texting friends to researching databases for a college level English course. The three main focuses in this video are that digital rhetoric persuades, informs, inspires, and entertains. This video helps the viewers engage with digital rhetoric and gives a clear understanding of what it means.
Brzozowski Digital Rhetoric 