Yanira's Thoughts Blog

What does rhetoric mean? It means speaking or writing persuasively to affect the audience. That can be a student wanting to persuade another student that they should switch lunches or snacks. Rhetoric is used in writing both in and out of school. So rhetoric would change if it was digital since not everyone is trying to be persuasive. Some people that are online are just trying to inform others while some people are trying to persuade others. Now what does digital rhetoric mean? It means a form of communication that is digital and isn’t focused on persuasion but on expressing oneself. It is also focused on building communities based off similar interests. This could lead to many different categories of writing. Those being based of what the writing is attempting to do. This could be an email sent to a professor excusing an absence or sending condolences to someone. It can also be lab reports we write or nurses writing plans for how to care for a patient and even admission essays for co...

Being on the web is something that everyone eventually knows how to navigate. There are many different reasons why people are on the web. Those reasons could be that someone is trying to find information about a disaster that happened, they are trying to connect with their friends and family, or they could just be surfing the web and not looking for anything in particular. Collaborating on the web can be seen as different things but the main things that are considered as collaborating on the web are liking, commenting, tagging, and even posting a blog. That is also known as being a part of the web’s collective intelligence. When collaborating or being apart of the web we tend to gravitate to a group. Those groups could be made up of friends or strangers that we have befriended. Within these communities they have come together for many different reasons, that could be that they wanted to put information out about a certain topic. They also could’ve gotten together because they all lik...

What is Social Media? Social Media is a considerable way of interacting with others as well as networking. Since there are a multitude of platforms created, social media has grown. There are many platforms that gain popularity and maintain it, while others gain and lose that popularity.  In 2002, the year that I was born, there was a social media platform that was gaining a lot of popularity. That platform was called Friendster . Despite the platform gaining a lot of attention, the developers weren't prepared, and because of that their servers were impacted. The following years, 2003 - 2005, seemed to be the year where new and different platforms became available to the public. Myspace was introduced in 2003 and then in 2005 YouTube was introduced. What made these platforms differ from Friendster was that with Myspace users were allowed to customize their public profiles. The difference with YouTube was that they allowed users to post any content they wanted without restrictions....