Final Exam Flashcards

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Visual Rhetoric

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rhetorical forms that are other than language or that include more than language, can also be encountered through other senses

example: American flag

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Visual culture

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a culture that is distinguished by the ubiquity of visual forms of communication that appear in multiple media outlets at the same time

example: television, commercial and noncommercial web pages, tablets, cell phones, and magazines

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presence

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immediacy, the creation of something in the front of an audience’s consciousness

acts on sensibility

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rhetoric of display

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rhetoric that makes ideas present through visual display

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iconic photographs

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photographic images produced in print, electronic, or digital media that are 1. Recognizable by everyone within a public culture 2. Understood to be representation of historically significant events 3. objects of strong emotional identification and response and 4. regularly reproduced or copied across a range of media, genres, and topics

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Body rhetoric

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rhetoric that foregrounds the body as part of the symbolic act

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image events

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staged acts… designed for media dissemination

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reading strategies

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  • dominant reading
  • negotiated reading
  • oppositional reading
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dominant reading

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(preferred, hegemonic meaning) reading in which a reader takes the “connoted meaning … full and straights … the viewer is operating independently the dominant code

  • does not challenge ideology behind message or way it maintains hegemonic power
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negotiated reading

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reading in which the viewer accepts some of the hegemonic meaning, but also recognizes some exceptions

  • denotational meanings are understood but some connotational meanings are challenged
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oppositional reading

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reading in which the viewer correctly decodes the devotional and connotational meaning of a text, but challenges it from an oppositional perspective

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persona

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the ethos, roles, identity and image a rhetor constructs and performs during a rhetorical act

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performance

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all the activity of a given participants on a given occasion which serves to influence in any way any of the other participants

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ethos

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the character of a rhetor performed in the rhetorical act and known by the audience because of prior interactions

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roles

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perform different personas, each calling for to the audience

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identity

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the physical and/or behavioral attributes that make a person recognizable as a member of a group

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publics

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people coming together to discuss common concerns, including concerns about who they are and what they should do

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counterpublics

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parallel discursive arenas where members of subordinated social groups invent and circulate discourse to formulate oppositional interpretations of their identities , interests and needs

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public screen

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the constant circulation of symbolic action enabled by the relatively new media technologies of television, computers, photography, film, internet, and smart phones

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strong publics

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public whose discourse encompasses both opinion formation and decision making

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weak publics

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public whose deliberatively practice consist of exclusively in opinion formation and does not encompass decision making

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enclaved publics

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publics that conceal their “antiestablishment ideas and strategies In order to avoid sanctions but internally produce lively debate and planning”

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oscillating publics

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publics that exist to “engage in debate with outsiders and to test ideas”

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networked publics

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interconnected publics and counter publics formed or strengthened as a result of the communication practices enabled by the internet and social media

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Public sphere
the civic space created when people (publics) engage in "collective, democratic opinion formation" and where political participation is enacted through rhetorical action