Digital Identity and Becoming

Intertextuality, Interaction, and Multiple Media

Agenda

• Website Update/Creating Your Blogs
• Discuss Wysocki
• Discuss Bucholtz and Hall
• Prepare for First Blog Post Assignment

Website Updates

• Blogroll is up!
• Once you’ve created your website, please send it to me so I can add it
• Your course blog will be where you host your blog assignments
• The Course Website’s “Resources”
• Access to slides
• I will do my best to post slides before class so that y’all can download them for your notes if you so choose.

Anne Frances Wysocki

Associate Professor of English at UW-Milwaukee

Studies New media aesthetics, composition, culture, and rhetorics; and technologies of communication

Today’s reading comes from the edited collection What Writing Does and How It Does It edited by Charles Bazerman and UIUC professor Paul Prior

Multiple Media of Texts

• Wysocki draws our attention to the ways in which texts include often subtle elements that seek to make certain types of arguments.
• Your task is to:
• Name the visual elements in a text
• Name the designed relationships among those elements
• Consider how the elements and relations connect with different audiences, contexts, and arguments

Mary Bucholtz

Kira Hall

Professor of Linguistics at UC-Santa Barbara

Professor of Linguistics at University of Colorado-Boulder

Both study language and social identity

Today’s reading comes from the journal “Discourse Studies”

Identity and Interaction

• Each Zoom room will be assigned a principle (emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, and partialness)
• Be prepared to present the following:
• What your principle means
• An example from the article
• An example that your group comes up with
• Don’t worry about being 100% right--just give it a shot

Let’s make a plan for your first blog post!

Week 2 Whiteboard