Discussion Board 1
textbook: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rhetoric_in_P…
Overview: In this Discussion Board you will be further analyzing the music video you looked at for Discussion Board 7. This time you will be applying at least one of the methods from Chapters 4-5 of the Brummett textbook. In 300-500 words, explain how you might analyze the video using at least one of the following methods:
- Culture-centered Criticism
- Marxist Criticism
- Feminist Criticism
- Psychoanalytic Criticism
- Visual Criticism
- Dramatistic/narrative Criticism
- Media-centered Criticism
Discussion Board Responses: Post responses to three of your peers. These responses should be 100-200 words. In your responses you might highlight how your interpretations of the video are similar, or how your responses differ. As always, you may also respectfully disagree.
Discussion Board 2
Overview: In this Discussion Board you will be considering Chapter 8 in the Brummett textbook.Describe the methods he used to analyze Groundhog Day, and how he used them. Explain what he means by simulation culture, and how the U.S. is a simulation culture? Can you think of other examples of simulation culture?
Discussion Board Responses: Post responses to three of your peers. These responses should be 100-200 words. In your responses you might highlight how your interpretations of the reading are similar, or how your responses differ. As always, you may also respectfully disagree.
Discussion Board 3
Overview: This Discussion Board covers Chapter 9 in the Brummett textbook. In 300-500 words, explain the methods Brummett uses to analyze Steampunk. Then, briefly reflect on the insights or perspective he offered on the phenomenon. What did you learn through his analysis?
Discussion Board 4
Overview: In this Discussion Board you will consider the analysis in Ch. 10 of the Brummett textbook. In 300-500 words, explain what is a rhetorical homology. More specifically, what is this “bad resurrection” Brummett speaks of? Can you think of other examples of the “bad resurrection?” Or, even better, can you think of a different rhetorical homology?
Discussion Board 5
Overview: In this Discussion Board you will be reading and discussing an article from the academic journal, Voices of Democracy.
Step One : Go to the following Web site, and select one of the speakers.
http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/speakers/
Step Two: You might see multiple speeches that have been analyzed in the journal. If so, pick one of those speeches and then click on Interpretive Essay. If there is only one speech, go directly to the Interpretive Essay.
Step Three: Read the essay, and participate in the Discussion Board.
In 300-500 words describe the article you read. What was analyzed? What was the author’s argument about the speech they analyzed? What connections do you see to what we have covered in class this semester? Were there parts of the articles you found particularly usefu or insightful? Were there parts you found confusing, or difficult to understand?
Discussion Board 6
Overview: In this Discussion Board, you will be examining two TED Talks given by Jeff Speck, and Janette Sadik-Khan. Links to these speeches can be found in this week’s module.
In 300-500 words, post a thread where you reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of both speakers. This could be based on any of the concepts we have covered this semester.
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