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The documents discuss the relationship between rhetoric, social media, and online communities. Several studies analyzed how rhetorical devices are used on platforms like Reddit and how online discussions shape identity and community norms. Researchers found that carefully crafted language and shared terminology can build credibility and bring people together. However, rhetoric alone may not change minds, and distraction from media multitasking can hurt learning. Overall, the documents argue that digital spaces are changing how rhetoric influences civic engagement and identity formation.

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2 Builder: Identify Who’s Talking and Who Is Loudest

Richter, Jacob D. (2021). Writing with Reddiquette: Networked Agonism and Structured
Deliberation in Networked Communities. Computers and Composition 59.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2021.102627

● What is the purpose of the article

○ Understanding the use of rhetorical devices used when people talk
about themselves online (and in this case - Reddit and its
subsections) & echo chambers.
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
○ Yes - they looked at the behavior of certain subsections & how they
used “decorum, metadiscourse, and telos”.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ Not only argued how they used the rhetorical devices, but their
relationship with agonism - and what it means vs. the argument that
echo chambers stick to only one opinion in a group.
● What is the significance of the research or main argument?
■ “Rhetorical scholars have reason to distrust notions of
“politeness” (Alexander, Jarratt, & Welch, 2018).”
● A quote from the reading, as a reason to why these rules
won’t necessarily work, but also encourages
discussions against a specific view.
■ Rules encourage a community that bonds rather a one that
attacks.

Dadas, Caroline. (2017). Hashtag activism: The promise and risk of "attention". In Walls,
Douglas M.; Stephanie Vie (Eds.), Social writing/social media: Publics, presentations,
and pedagogies. Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado
(pp. 17-36). https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/social/chapter1.pdf

● What is the purpose of the article?

○ Understanding the reason of #’s in social media for a cause, but also
needs full context to understand.
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
■ They used the examples of #yesallwomen &
#bringbackourgirls and how they influenced a specific
moment of time.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ Hashtags are a valuable resource, but only when the audience is
critically informed.
■ On Rhetoric: “...calling attention to the number of lives that
each has allegedly ended represents an incisive rhetorical
strategy” as a response to how ironic one side was.

Blair, Kristine L. (2020). Social Media Ethics and the Rhetorical Tradition [book review].
Composition Studies 48.1, 127-135.
https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/br_blair.pdf

● What is the purpose of the article?

○ Public discourse & how digital social media changed how rhetoric
and civic action leads to goals.
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
○ Looks at two books and reviews and adds info from which the
author(s) may/may not review.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ Rhetoric and writing have a huge deal in terms of persuading people
just like in the older days of Aristotle and Plato.
○ Identity is huge in terms of what a speaker talks about, and social
media is a huge part of identity formation.

Beck, Estee. (2017). Sustaining critical literacies in the digital information age: The
rhetoric of sharing, prosumerism, and digital algorithmic surveillance. In Walls, Douglas
M.; Stephanie Vie (Eds.), Social writing/social media: Publics, presentations, and
pedagogies. Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado (pp.
37-52). https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/social/chapter2.pdf

● What is the purpose of the article?

○ Does social media and sharing inadvertently change how companies
work & cause easier divisions, OR does it bring us closer together?
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
○ No study, but rather a technical look in the past and present on
prosumerism and how sharing helps.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ The “rhetoric” in sharing (ie. “supporting others” & “connecting”)
causes people to get closer together because of wording.
● What is the significance of the research or main argument?
○ Interacting with students allows us to bring change upon the world.

2. Lawson, Thomas. (2022). Sound judgments: A case study in digital ethos and
networked phronesis [Special Issue: Approaches to Rhetoric in a Post-truth Age:
Pedagogies, Activism, and Platforms]. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and
Culture 33. https://www.enculturation.net/sound_judgments

● What is the purpose of the article?

○ There are social media discussion on anything you are passionate
about - and it comes with different languages and new words that are
specific to that topic. How do people even enter into these new
terminologies?
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
○ Multiple analysis of different authors - it just lays out the facts that
other scholars have done.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ How online conversations incorporate writing practices & ethos into
culture and integral identities.
■ (Jeff Rice) Terminologies appear and then repeated, shared
and multiply amongst others, creating communities that
makes it credible.
● And thus, using these terminologies also makes you
seem credible.
● What is the significance of the research or main argument?
○ Networks are improved and born with users who are active on social
media.
■ “Networked phronesis could be cultivated through a digital
writing pedagogy devoted to developing phronetic
dispositions in students.”

25. Portanova, Patricia. (2017). Chapter 13. The Rhetoric of Distraction: Media Use and
the Student Writing Process. In Douglas M. Walls, & Stephanie Vie (Eds.), Social
Writing/Social Media: Publics, Presentations, and Pedagogies (pp. 247-262).
https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2017.0063.2.13
(Info of “Chapter 13. The Rhetoric of Distraction: Media Use and the
Student Writing Process”)

● What is the purpose of the article?

○ Mentions the concern of teachers being scared of the threat of social
media distraction, and how it isn’t negative to any writing
● Have the scholars carried out a study? If so, what methods did the scholar(s)
use to answer their research question?
○ Survey and quasi-experiment: When distracted by a portable social
media device, there was no difference/correlation between
performances and writing.
● What did the scholar(s) find out or argue about?
○ People use headphones w/ music to have consistent noise, unlike
the erratic noises around them in a library.
○ Music and/or silence is the least distracting - music, texting, AND
social media is the most distracting together.
● What is the significance of the research or main argument?
○ We understand that writing involves problem-solving amd uses
mental processes - also, multitasking hurt students on knowledge
during lectures.