CA 610i: Rhetoric and the Internet
Schedule

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Part I: Background

Week 1
1/22: First Day "What Rhetorical Analysis Can do for You (Online)"
1/24: Meeting #1, "Rhetoric and Technology"
Required Reading: McKeon, Richard. 1987. “The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts.” Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery. Mark Backman Ed.Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press. 1–24.

Week 2
1 /29:Meeting #2, "Rhetoric and Orality I"
Required Reading: Ong, Walter. 1982. “Introduction,” "Chapter 1," and “Chapter 4,” in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen. 1-3, 5-15, and 78-117.
1/31: Meeting #3, "Rhetoric and Orality II"
Required Reading: Ong, Walter. 1982. “Chapter 5,” in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen. 118-138.

Week 3
2 /5: Meeting #4, "Emergence of the PC"
Required Reading: Ceruzzi, Paul. 1999. “Inventing Personal Computing” in Donald McKenzie and Judy Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology. Philadelphia: Open University Press. 64-86.
2/7: Meeting #5, "Emergence of the Internet"
Required Reading: Abbate, Janet. 1999. “Introduction” and “Chapter 3.” Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Week 4
2 /12: Meeting #6, "Rhetoric and the Internet"
Required Reading: Warnick, Barbara. 2002. “Introduction: Rhetoric and Critical Theory” and “Conclusion: Who Does Technology Serve?” in Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. 1-18 and 115-127.
2/14: Meeting #7, "The Sophists and the Internet I"
Required Reading: Welsh, Kathleen E. 1999. “Chapter 2” in Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. 29-74.

Week 5
2/19: Meeting #8, "The Sophists and the Internet II"
Required Reading: Welsh, Kathleen E. 1999. “Chapter 4” in Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a New Literacy. 101-136.
2/21: Meeting #9, "The Libertarians and the Internet I"
Required Reading: Turner, From Cyberculture . . . 1 - 103

Week 6
2 /26: Meeting #10, "The Libertarians and the Internet II "
Required Reading: Turner, From Cyberculture . . . 104 - 237
2/28: Meeting #11, "The Value of the Public Forum"
Required Reading: Sunstein, Cass. “An Analogy and an Ideal.” Republic.com. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 23 - 50.

Part II: Rhetoric and the Internet

Week 7
3 /4: Meeting #12, "Rhetoric and Protest I"
Required Reading: Gurak, Persuasion . . . 1 - 83
3 /6: Meeting #13, "Rhetoric and Protest II"
Required Reading: Gurak, Persuasion . . . 84 - 136

Week 8
3/11: Meeting #14, "Digital Politics I"
Required Reading: Sunstein, Republic.com 2.0. . . 1 - 118
3/13: Meeting #15, Digital Politics II
Required Reading: Sunstein, Republic.com 2.0. . . 119 - 224

Spring Break
March 15 - 23

Week 9
3/25: Meeting #16, "Persuasion and Politics I"
Required Reading: Warnick, Rhetoric Online. . . 1 - 68
3/27: Meeting # 17, "Persuasion and Politics II"
Required Reading: Warnick, Rhetoric Online. . . 68 - 128

Part III: Documenting Online Communication

Week 10
4/01: Meeting #18, "Documenting Online Communication I"
4/03: Meeting #19, "Documenting Online Communication II"

Week 11
4/08: TBA [WSFS]
4/10: TBA [WSFS]

Week 12
4/15: Meeting #20, Assignment Critique Group One
4/17: Meeting #21, Assignment Critique Group Two

4 /18: Assignment One Due by 5 PM via email.

Part IV: Final Presentations

Week 13 
4 /22: Meeting #22, Final Presentations
4 /24: Meeting #23, Final Presentations

Week 14
4/29: Meeting #24, Final Presentations
5/01: Meeting #25, Final Presentations

Week 15
5/6: Meeting #26,Final Presentations
5/8: Last Day, Last Thoughts

Week 16
NO COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION.
5/12, by 5:00 PM: FINAL PAPER emailed to section instructor in .doc, .rtf, or .pdf. format.