Rhetorical Situation
The person delivering the message.
Who is the speaker?
A personalized social media feed based on the user's interests.
What is an FYP (For You Page)?
Black feminist scholar who called Beyoncé a terrorist for her representation of women in media.
Who is bell hooks?
A generative artificial intelligence large language model developed by OpenAI.
What is ChatGPT?
An internet-based plagairism detection software.
What is Turnitin?
The name of the online movement meant to advocate for R. Kelly's conviction and financial end to his career.
What is #MuteRKelly"?
The generations of people who were born interacting with digital technology at a young age and are unfamiliar with life without tools such as the Internet, cell phones, and computers.
What are Digital Natives?
The three persuasive appeals.
What are ethos, logos, and pathos?
The CEO of TikTok
Who is Shou Zi Chew?
The idea that "the most profound and potentially the most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody else's oppression"
What is identity politics?
Videos, images, or audio that have been generated by artificial intelligence.
What is a deepfake?
A document that discloses how a party collects, uses, and manages a user's data.
What is a privacy policy?
The name of the video that started Dramageddon 2.0.
What is "Bye Sister"?
The deliberate spread of inaccurate information with the intent to mislead.
What is disinformation?
The three purposes in a rhetorical situation.
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
The form of internet activism that #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter use.
What is hashtag activism?
The analytical tool that centers Black women in digital studies rather than advocating for our inclusion.
What is digital black feminism?
The area in Northern California known for tech innovation and internet services.
What is Silicon Valley?
Releasing information to the public without permission.
What is leaking?
The rest of the lyrics to Toxic Gossip Train:
All aboard the toxic gossip train
Chugging down the tracks of misinformation
The toxic gossip train
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What is "You got a one-way ticket to manipulation station"?
The digital world that promotes masculinity, misogyny, and an opposition to feminism.
What is the manosphere?
The act or event that prompts a message.
What is exigence?
Technology that is designed to change behaviors and attitudes.
What is persuasive technology?
The process in which American archivists’ neglect in documenting violence against a marginalized group [that] has real and lasting implications for restorative and transitional justice.
What is archival amnesty?
A hypothetical event in which technological growth exceeds human control.
What is technological singularity?
The US law expanding surveillance after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks.
What is the PATRIOT Act?
In an interview in response to her cancellation, she said:
"I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear."
Who is Sydney Sweeney?
Technology that overlays real-time 3D-rendered computer graphics onto a portion of the real world through a display.
What is augmented reality?
When the conditions are right and it is the most opportune time to deliver a message.
What is kairos?
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
What is Section 230?
A Black feminist approach to an analysis of power that informs us about how structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal domains of power shape human action.
What is matrix of domination?
The CEO of OpenAI
Who is Sam Altman?
The process of transforming text into ciphertext that only specific parties can decode.
What is encryption?
Author of the book We Will Not Cancel Us.
Who is adrienne maree brown?
A set of instructions designed to accomplish a task, taking inputs, running steps, and providing outputs
What is an algorithm?