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http://spinweaveandcut.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Sousanis-Unflattening-Excerpt.pdf

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because the web inherits book design-- we even call it a web page. the digital modality would not exist without the written. each modality builds on the other. Oration inevitably was written down and it was not a pollution of or degradation of the message

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Audience Stance, Transparency, Hybridity: we must build on what we know, start where we are. The online "versions" of the thing must first mimic the real thing itself for maximum rhetorical effectivity

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"Acknowledging this hybrid.. means that "visual culture" and "print culture" are all dialogic relationships rather than binary opposites" Thinking in term of the thingness of things, and specifically the thingness of the brass compact artifact, all of these rhetorical elements exist together and at once, both fast and slow

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offer students all available means of persuasion and expression so that they can function as literate.. in a global environment

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is storytelling the intersection here?

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honest engagement with the complexity of issues. gaming models. Where is the focus on the learning vs having the experience? Is it the rhetor's obligation to provide solution or just to model the communication procedure. Translating systems in the world into the systems in the game.

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hard to do new work inside of old institutions. I totally get this. What more can be created with a new media-- the media necessarily informs the message. Not sure that the media is a rhetor. Would it be bad if it were? Something about this notion seems dangerous.

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Interesting point that the Ted Talk culture is dangerous. ted Talk as similar to the goldstone creamery training video-- devoid of context

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procedural rhetoric-- the orders and rules which determine our conversations, our interactions with others, with government, any institution

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experience he had with his son-- procedural rhetoric working at its best: gaming simulating real life presenting a rhetorical situation. media informing the message? creating an opportunity and an arena for a message

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Tenure Story: the dynamics of the work place, the feeling of working thru conflicts. gaming models for procedural rhetoric

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check verb continuity

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I like how you address your growth as a writer. I think that speaks to the positive impact of the program.

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this sentence could be a little better constructed

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begin

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I like this reference to alternate rhetorical modalities,

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I think that you demonstrated a progression and evolution as a critical thinker and writer. I would do some proof reading and some editing, but overall your CRE positively reflects on your experience at GSU. Consider adding some hyperlinks connecting to the articles that you reference. Congratulations on your portfolio!

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this could probably be replaced by one active verb. catalyze.. just a thought.

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cliché. I only write this because I used this same phrase in a paper for Dr. Snow and she commented on it.

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I'm glad that I am not the only one who feels this way.

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position would work here rather than positionally.

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might want to link to the play Ruined here. I have no idea what it is about. But then again, you might not want the audience to leave the page at this time.

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over the course of 2 courses is awkward

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Good job. Your writing gives me a starting point for my own CRE.

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Daniel, your CRE demonstrates your evolution as a writer and student at GSU. You have thoughtfully referenced articles that you generated in your classes, and you have successfully integrated hyperlinks which flow effectively to your work. I wold say this is an excellent example of a critical reflective essay.

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Hahn 433 ingenious writing in the age of humans can do: help humans understand the history of themselves, their institutions, and their vulgar wisdom so that they might better deliberate over, make possible, and actualize what they want their society to become.

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Hahn 433 Ingenium thus signifies human-age humans’ capacity to mediate poetical-rhetorical and philosophical forms of wisdom in order produce ways of knowing and doing that meet the age’s challenges.

Hahn claims that Vico believes that rhetoric emerged out of an attempt to reconcile being human in the wilderness. The original maxims or narratives came as lightening and thunder from the gods. Early man codified natural phenomena thus determining the laws of the land. Later writes how today rhetoric ignores the one voice that really matters-- Gaia. Have we evolved away from the divine truth so far that all our rhetorical machinations are just BS-- distractions from what is real? Multimodal this, digital that-- are we obscuring the one voice that really matters?

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I love this! These three sensible institutions not only medi- ated three fundamental types of relations between humans and their world but also enabled humans to think in new ways. Religion created hierarchies and a capacity to understand and critique hierarchical relations. Marriage created spatial arrangements and a capacity to read and rearrange them. Burial created historical lineages and a capacity to relate past, present, and future. Hahn 432

Religion, Marriage, and Burial Ritual as the beginning of codified rhetoric in order to find a way to exist outside of chaos.

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I love this! Even though I am only understand maybe a quarter of what this dude Vico is talking about, I love the idea that rhetoric is determined by the evolutionary narrative of the human experience. The earliest flashes of light- ning, cracks of thunder, and other natural events were the world’s first maxims. Disparate pieces of a potentially important yet murky argument, these maxims would need to be joined, interpreted, and shared by the bestial humans --Hahn 430

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I don't know what enthymeme means. Hahn 427

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sensus communis-- Hahn. I don't know what this means.I don't think I do. I do more fully understand what I think Hahn is interpreting Vico to say, that humans are bound by the natural animalistic laws, and that rhetoric is an attempt to recreate our experiences of the divine origin. We created our own minds and the methods by which we express the experience of our mind

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writing qua writing --Hahn 424 Hahn repeats this phrase. I have no idea what it means. In fact I'm not sure I get the gist of this article at all.

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This makes me think of Trump. When words and ideas come to carry such little shared meaning that language can no longer be used as a tool for shaping institutions, when skep- ticism runs so high that irrationality is resolutely accepted as the new rationality, when self-isolation becomes the only escape from perpetual indeterminacy— that is precisely when progress gives way to regression. Hahn 421

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I am reminded of social media, particularly Twitter. As people take over the dissemination of news 140 characters at a time, news culture is disassembled and reconfigures, vital actants disappear and new actants emerge-- particularly those who have never had a vital voice in the cultural conversation-- rather they were the ones being acted on even though the conversation was about them.

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This speaks directly to the acceptability of the new voice in cultural discourse. If rhetoric takes a nontraditional turn, meaning that a wider and more divers audience than ever before has access to and agency through digital rhetoric platforms, then the traditional culture will object, does already object. Is this dilution evolution of the message? have missed out on the real message, the divine truth, by limiting the number of people able to participate in the conversation?

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This examination of the evolution of television mirrors the evolution of rhetoric into multimodal platforms. That tv was only stable from 1950-1980s suggests that this definition of television is only a "blip" in the ongoing history of the medium. The same with more traditional rhetoric. Will the written word become a blip in the timeline of communication? Will we return to this "more stable" platform, abandoning the ephemeral new fangled multimodal communication platforms? Is the discord of the discussion in believing (falsely) that things were better in a time before and that the future lies in an even further corruption of the truth? Can we have discourse without these opposing beliefs-- that tv was better in its original form, that rhetoric was better in its oral or print form?

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are hyperlinks the rhetoric as opposed to the "autonomous digital texts?" How doe the "discontinuous" "flow" of the interrupting hyperlinks actually contribute to a fluidly conducted reader experience. The hyperlink is not really comparable to the tv commercial, but the ads obviously are.

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That the rhetoric of possibility is really a discrete set of information

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I just love this phrase that Reeves repeats throughout the text: the Web’s rhetoric of possibility entices users to flow through constrained webs of inter texts (323) The notion that the liberated web audience "chooses" the message that they will read, the limited possibilities that are chosen for us to manipulate the messages we receive and the ideas we generate as a result

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persistent rhetorical pressures of hyperlinks. Reeves 321

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This seems self-evident enough, and yet for some reason the criti- cal response to hypertext prose has always fixated on the dissociative power of the link” (111). There is nothing at all “random” about Web audiencing, Johnson insists: “What makes the online world so revolutionary is the fact that there are connections between each stop on a [W]eb itinerant’s journey. The links that join those various destinations are links of association, not randomness” (109; empha- sis added). In the days of digital audiencing, strolling from one activity to the next is simply a new way to turn the page (see Barker 174). Reeves 321

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cookie- generated profile of his or her estimated interests --Reeves 318

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How does online media affect the message? How does the public accessibility inherently manipulate what message is received by the audience based on the advertising that appears as a result of individualized marketing based on reading cookies. Is the intended audience being reached? Is the audience being sidetracked by the external links placed there by an algorithm running autonomously?

I argue that as digital technologies provide new means for tempting us with surveillance-based personalization and advertising, scholars should be criti- cal of the possibilities and possible selves crafted by this rhetoric Reeves

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flow as the interactive HCI experience for media consumers critic Raymond Williams calls “flow,” which is the rhetorical means by which media consumers are continuously enticed to devote more of their time to a particular media experience. --Reeves

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While this liberation of the audience is an important aspect of the digital experience, the Web nevertheless confronts us with a highly structured rhetorical environment that keeps us weaving in and between sites. --Reeves

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the more we seek out new media and new means of expressing ourselves we can't really lose track of that original search for the divine truth which exists primarily in narrative storytelling

the challenges of adapting a rhetorical tradition more than 2,000 years old to the conditions and constraints of new digital media. (319) Reeves

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Women are automatically having to communicate from a deficit. We negotiate boundaries that men never even consider or know exist. How does digital media eliminate these boundaries? How does providing a voice for the traditionally marginalized groups whose access to rhetorical avenues has never existed before change the political landscape? or just life in general? Will these modes become powerful or poopooed?

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The ways in which male normative culture has shaped my world is so deep that I don't even recognize my own sexism. How much of my life is based on trying to fit in. What more could I and women in general accomplish if this all encompassing filter was removed. What could we be and do and think if a woman's way of doing things was acceptable rather than inferior and childish.

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the spaces between. I love that. Is this where real communication actually happens Is this where we actually live? how limiting are the 1s and 0s?

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I subbed a 2nd grade class at the Friends' School of Atlanta. The co teacher, who happened to be a old friend, used multiple ways to communicate during a grammar session. She often spelled each word in sign language to reinforce correct spelling.

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Play. What an interesting media of communication. What is storytelling if not play? How is humor a medium in and of itself? What new thoughts can be evoked by body movement? Yoga is in itself a spiritual narrative through movement. How doe we encourage people who are "trapped" in their body and who may have corrupted minds thanks to illness to connect and communicate?

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careful watching. what role does the audience play in the narrative? listening

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like the shibboleth "Autism Speaks" Who is speaking for the autistic people-- "normal" people. people without autism. how do we bridge this gap between traditional communication styles and marginalized groups who are fenced out by their misunderstood, unappreciated, untapped communicative abilities.

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age is definitely something that is gained, and yet the elderly are often marginalized in western society. The elderly are not likely to be found in a pedagogical situation. How do we as rhetors shift this conversation and make forward progress with the senior care narrative?

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thinking about the elderly as immobilized bodies. Deafness, blindness, paralysis, loss of taste and smell. How do we communicate with these people? What are we doing to advance communication with the elderly?

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and would Plato and his rhetors ever have a conversation about something like Ferguson? How is the slave population of ancient greece driving or not driving discourse, especially if to define something one must automatically define the opposite of the thing (Derrida)

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with the decline in popularity in Twitter what will fill the void? How does gene and the baby boomers keep up with millennial trends, and do millennial trends shape the media and gen x adapts? what new media do more mature generations rely on for news? do we miss the trends, come in at the tail end? will younger generations and more mature generations ever have successful discourse? how does this reflect Plato's Phaedrus discussion about written language vs. oral traditions and the actual dissemination of truth?

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using alternative media to express a new rhetorical message. how does the media change the conversation? How can we use new media to facilitate discourse? what would this new message be? Who would the audience be?

complicated point here.

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I like this idea of Deaf Gain. I haven't read the Hunter article, but I do appreciate the rhetorical expression that can be achieved by using the whole body. Someone, somewhere created these expressions, these gestures, gave them meaning and now they are still ever evolving.

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But love is not the same thing as jealousy. True love is based on truth and respect. The one who loves truly would never shield the beloved from the truth

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Phaedrus proposes that passion is the corruptor of truth

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divine madness superior to sanity. The gods inspire us to passion/madness

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there is no discourse without imperfection. the disagreements are essential to seeking the truth, as best as mortals can

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discourse is about returning to the divine, returning to God from whence we came. the soul is always trying to get back to perfection/divintiy

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and perhaps this search for reason, return to reason, ultimately looks like madness to the lesser evolved mortal. Rhetoricians are always more highly evolve by the nature of their pursuit of the truth.

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bliss through discipline

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the rhetorician must fully understand the topic, the ins and outs, to be fully persuasive. Otherwise, even if the subject matter is true and worthy the weak rhetoric will convince no one and convey no truth

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we can either begin an argument with a statement of the truth and then build support around it, or we can state something that we dispute and then state the argument against. We can also compare and contrast two articles, two truths, and then draw a conclusion

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Socrates claims that writing is like painting and can at best be only an imitation or reproduction of life. Let one not be too swayed by a reproduction-- it can be used and mistreated, interpreted any which way. But at the same time to remember we must write. It's too much of a catch 22.

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