Week Date Assignments
1 Aug. 31 Form/Content and Rhetoric
2 Sept. 7 Digiality, Interfaces, Ideologies
3 Sept. 14 Audience(s)
4 Sept. 21 Situations, Ecologies, Velocity
5 Sept. 28 Update Culture; Templates and Afterlife
6 Oct. 5 Update Culture; Interface and Ideology
Annotated bibliography due
7 Oct. 12 TBD
8 Oct. 19 Circulation, Writing, Rhetoric 1
9 Oct. 26 Circulation, Writing, Rhetoric 2
10 Nov. 2 Circulation, Writing, Rhetoric 3
11 Nov. 9 Ethics of Circulation and Digital Activisms
Friday, November 10, 2023 is the last day you can drop the course
12 Nov. 16 No class--work on projects!
Digital Project due
13 Nov. 23 Thanksgiving. Contemplate the rhetorical velocity of simple carbohydrates
14 Nov. 30 Team-up Superclass with Online Language
15 Dec. 5 TBD Presentations for Online Presence project
FINAL Dec. Nope We are done, y'all!
Bernie Sanders Wearing Mittens Seated in a Chair meme from the 2021 inaguration ceremony, Bernie sits with Jay and Silent Bob outside the front of RST Video

Guiding questions for the course

  1. How can we characterize relationships between form and content?
  2. What relationships do writers, institutions, and audiences have to texts in circulation, particularly on social platforms and the web?
  3. How does discourse circulate to achieve goals? Whose goals?
  4. What happens when discourse is on the go?
  5. What roles do templates, interfaces, platforms, and other technologies play in digital composition?
  6. How can we—or can we in the first place—anticipate updates, circulation, and delivery as components of rhetorical situations and ecologies?
  7. How might we use rhetorical theory to inform practice, advocacy, and critique in a digitally circulating world?