Digital Rhetoric: What does it mean?

The meaning of the term “digital rhetoric”, has gone through some change throughout different centuries. Starting with its earliest inception in ancient Greek, Aristotle believed rhetoric to be the “art of finding out the available means of persuasion for a given argument” (1991, 37). As pointed out by Aristotle, rhetoric is the practice of persuasiveContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: What does it mean?”

Digital Rhetoric: Introduction

Personally I associate digital rhetoric with all things technological. For instance, writing an online article about an upcoming movie would be an example of digital rhetoric. Characteristics of this example are to persuade, inform, and inspire action in the reader, while at the same time distributing said information through multimedia means. Writing digitally basically suggestsContinue reading “Digital Rhetoric: Introduction”

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