Foundations in Rhetoric and Media
This refers to the ways that symbols construct our social reality, constitute identity, and mobilize us to collective action.
Rhetoric.
This is the first stage of textual analysis, and describes a process before entering the text itself.
Anticipation.
This refers to performative gestures to diversity, or what Warner calls "white characters dipped in chocolate."
Plastic representation.
DeLuca & Peeples argued that we transitioned from the public sphere to this concept.
Public screen.
This refers to extending one's fandom into pursuing social and political change.
Fan activism.
These were "arguers for hire" in ancient Greece who trained people in rhetoric.
The sophists.
This is the final stage of textual analysis, and involves understanding how texts influence other texts.
Appropriation.
This scholar theorizes the ideas of simulated diversity and racial couvade.
Deery.
This involves using one's physical self to make an argument.
Body rhetoric.
This proof involves the use of emotion as an argument.
Pathos.
This refers to someone who studies rhetoric.
Rhetorician.
According to Black, these refer to "tics" used to identify an author's ideology.
Stylistic tokens.
According to Shapiro, this is a trope used to describe someone who "overcomes" or transcends disability.
Supercrip.
This involves actively "reading against the grain" and disagreeing with the assumptions and beliefs of a text.
Oppositional reading.
This refers to a section of the audience capable of being persuaded and producing change.
Rhetorical audience.
This media studies tradition is concerned with content that reaches a large audience, such as newspapers, and is generally more quantitative.
Mass media.
According to Black, this is the "implied auditor" in rhetorical discourse.
The second persona.
This refers to a marginalized identity being asked to "stand in" and fully represent the interests of people with similar identities to them.
The burden of representation.
This refers to the idea that "being seen" and "being heard" are important for activism and social change.
Visibility politics.
This describes someone that is simultaneously a producer and consumer of media.
Prosumer.
This scholar theorized the idea of identification to describe how rhetors might connect with audiences.
Kenneth Burke.
This is the term theorized in the Ibelin reading.
Hyperpersonal supercrip.
This refers to the repeated leaving out of an identity from media representation.
Symbolic annihilation.
These are "mind bombs", or staged acts designed for media dissemination.
Image events.
This view of communication is largely linear, imagining a sender and receiver.
Transmission.