Hess Digital Rhetorical Identification Flashcards
Companies collect data about your online activity and, to varying degrees, personalize your content in relation to previous patterns/online behavior
Clip from Minority Report
How does Burke’s process of identification work in this context?
Identification: Constructing shared, common ideas, values, experiences, or attitudes through communication
Cookies
Personal Search Data
Algorithms
Assess/translate the data
Digital Substance
(the collective “space” we share with tech) is consumer
driven and based on personal search history
Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Ethics (Video)
Ted Talk: Beware online “Filter bubbles”
What information are we exposed to?
Rhetoric, Identity, and Ethics
Communication practices influence how we come to see ourselves/others