Digital Rhetorics

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course introduces students to the basic themes, issues, and intellectual debates in the study of digital rhetorics. It provides a critical perspective on what it means to live in a digitally mediated world. To this end, the course seeks to answer the following questions: How should we define media? What separates new media from old? What is the relationship of media to culture and society? What role does digital rhetoric play in a modern democracy? Students explore a variety of perspectives for considering digital rhetorics, including language, ethics, power, and identity. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and the former RHET-3152. Requisite Courses: Completion of 42 credit hours [prerequisite(s)].