https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kVWmRjd4T6Y8jnqVFjAdWvYecYiFOajt/view?usp=sharing My remix is a video that includes several clips from BBC’s programs, layered under clipped and rearranged commentary and sound effects from the Rio summer games of 2016, among other sports competitions. The humor is created by the way in which I combined the seriousness of the tone of sports casting together with cute…
5: Remixing Book Covers to Talk About Racism
The Baby-Sitters Club was a YA book series released in 1986 that followed a group of 11-13 year old girls running a babysitting service in a fictional town in Connecticut. In book #56, titled Keep Out, Claudia!, one of the girls, Claudia, who is Asian-American, is denied a job babysitting for a white family. After another girl…
Do It Yourself!
While I have not had extensive time to work on my Digital Genre Wiki, I am trying my very best! That said, my genre is the DIY in all its glory. Whether its bath bombs or home improvement, the DIY has taken the internet by storm and needs to be treated as a genre same as…
Genre’s Purpose
In the past, genre was simple and easy for me to define. It was nothing more than a word to represent categories for books: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, genre fiction, etc., and music: rock, pop, metal, country, etc. However true that definition may be, it does not even begin to cover the entirety of the meaning…
3: Defining Genre as a Social Construct
Genre is a method of communication that comes about as a result of a particular rhetorical situation located in a specific place in time and setting. This was not always genre’s definition, and it is still not the accepted definition within certain academic circles. In “Generalizing about Genre,” Amy Devitt explains the problems in the…
2: Diversity and Rhetoric
Like many others in the class, I have some artsy literary leanings, and would like to focus my study on a lit mag website. I feel like this is an interesting way to go about examining rhetoric and design because each lit mag is so individual and unique to itself, and thus so are many…
Hamilton’s Design
The webpage for the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is almost as innovative and intriguing as the musical itself. Once you open the site, you’re greeted with the musical’s logo – a mustard yellow background, the silhouette of a star (four prongs of a basic star and a man pointing upward to symbolize the top and fifth…
2: Design Choices behind Instagram
Like others for their second blog post, I wanted to focus on a social media site, the rhetoric and rhetorical situation behind it, and analyze it. Instagram is “…a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharingapplication and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly, or privately to pre-approved followers.” (Wikipedia). While you can…
2) Rhetorical Design Choices: Goodreads.com
On goodreads.com, “users can add books to their personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends and authors are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on their reviews of previously read books.” I first discovered goodreads last year when…