Class Journal: 4/2/2015

Class Journal 4/2/2015

Chelsea Holmes

 Jim Ridolfo

Things everyone liked about Ridolfo’s piece

-storytelling

-description of experience

-interview style

-he couldn’t have figured it out the same from a birds eye view

-very process oriented (strategy)

-he showed diagrams and stages

-he said how hindsight effected everything maggie was saying, giving the text a lifespan

-everything is purposeful, purposeful delivery

-media and circulation strategy

-shows a writing and editing strategy

-if people like it after Maggie talking with them, they’ll redistribute it

-Ridolfo notices that Maggie’s story is not generalizable  (there is some serendipity involved)

Ridolfo’s piece is still important even with it’s flaws because:

-learn something about delivery

-it is the opposite of what we normally read that has an exact definition, this gives us practice to put with the theories

-delivery starts with orality

RIDOLFO LIST FOR DELIVERY

1.community

2.place

3.time

4.media

5.organizations

6.instiutions

7.technology

8.people

Ridolfo thinks people matter!

Ex. Website called “knowyourmeme.com” with “wewlad”

Shows often time text is more about the story behind it, just like us finding Maggie’s story interesting because then we can understand her writing more.

It is important to have an actual conversation with people, like how Maggie talked to the conservative men in person. This is a Platonic way of going about things, he taught about having the actual author there to tell you what writing means.

Remixing and reprinting of Maggie’s piece, makes the audience seem active

Distribution: Maggie knows who gets to see it and how they get to see it

Circulation: Where it goes after distribution and who sees it without her knowledge

Rhetorical situation with Bitzer Review

- triangle with 1 writer, 1 text, 1 audience, and 1 context

Theories we have covered this semester

-Rhetorical situation

-Genre

-Remediation

-Media

-Multimodality

-Remix

-Assemblage

-Delivery

“How do they all relate?”

Everyone in class felt like everything had to do with rhetorical situation

-delivery and genre are the necessary “how”

-rhetorical situation –informs/frames

-remediation, assemblage and remediation are different sources

-media=repurposing

Current class definition of remix vs. assemblage: in remix one can’t see all the parts, and in assemblage they can