Digital Rhetoric: New Media and the Transformation of Writing (PWR 91B)
Offered Winter 2012
Instructor: Christine Alfano
TTh 11:00 a.m.
Prerequisites: PWR 1 and PWR 2
Writing is changing.
When you see the word “Writing,” what comes to mind? An academic essay assignment? A pen tracing words on paper? The words on the front page of newspaper? An article at CNN.com or Reddit? The stacked tweets and Facebook updates on your Tweetdeck?
Increasingly, our understanding of what writing is – as an act, a moment of expression or persuasion – has become unfixed from the printed page and has become associated with more fluid, electronic environments.
More and more, writing operates in multiple modes (word, image, sound) in this new media environment, so that some of the most powerful pieces of writing may not seem like traditional writing at all. Yet each of these texts is an example of writing – a moment of invention, drafting, revision, and communication -- governed by the evolving conditions of a new, digital rhetoric.
Take your writing online. Learn it. Write it. Do it.
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