Invitational Rhetoric
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| - | Artifact 1 – Anna Russett: Anna is a recently graduated art student from Chicago who has gathered a sizable following on social media, especially Instagram. She often takes selfies, sometimes featuring products, and then proceeds to say something about her day or the products, followed by a question directed at her followers, inviting them to give their input on how their day is going, products that they suggest, or goals that they have. In this particular artifact, Anna features a hair growth product that she is using and then invites her followers to share their hair goals with her, thus sparking an open conversation about different goals and products. | + | Artifact 1 – Anna Russett: Anna is a recently graduated art student from Chicago who has gathered a sizable following on social media, especially Instagram. She often takes selfies, sometimes featuring products, and then proceeds to say something about her day or the products, followed by a question directed at her followers, inviting them to give their input on how their day is going, products that they suggest, or goals that they have. In this particular artifact, Anna features a hair growth product that she is using and then invites her followers to share their hair goals with her, thus sparking an open conversation about different goals and products. Artifact 2 – Oval Preachers: The Oval Preachers are religious people (often male) who regularly set up camp on the Ohio State Oval and aggressively preach about controversial issues including social things like abortion, homosexuality, etc. They often have large picket signs and resort to yelling across the Oval and attempting to stop students on their way to class with forced conversations revolving around religion in relation to these controversial issues. |
| - | Artifact 2 – Oval Preachers: The Oval Preachers are religious people (often male) who regularly set up camp on the Ohio State Oval and aggressively preach about controversial issues including social things like abortion, homosexuality, etc. They often have large picket signs and resort to yelling across the Oval and attempting to stop students on their way to class with forced conversations revolving around religion in relation to these controversial issues. | + | |
==Additional Resources== | ==Additional Resources== | ||
Revision as of 15:16, 16 April 2015
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Introduction
Invitational rhetoric is an alternative form of rhetoric. It seeks to abolish the patriarchal tendencies that go hand-in-hand with traditional rhetoric, such as domination and intimidation. It completely disregards one common goal of traditional rhetoric – to persuade the audience to adopt the rhetor’s beliefs. Instead, it opts for something more discussion-based. As the name suggests, the audience is invited to share their ideas and opinions with the rhetor and other audience members, and can expect to be listened to without hostility or interruption. The utmost objective of invitational rhetoric is to share one’s views so that other participants views may be broadened, and vice versa. It is an educational experience in which no one person is thought to be more valuable.
Artifact Analysis
Artifact 1 – Anna Russett: Anna is a recently graduated art student from Chicago who has gathered a sizable following on social media, especially Instagram. She often takes selfies, sometimes featuring products, and then proceeds to say something about her day or the products, followed by a question directed at her followers, inviting them to give their input on how their day is going, products that they suggest, or goals that they have. In this particular artifact, Anna features a hair growth product that she is using and then invites her followers to share their hair goals with her, thus sparking an open conversation about different goals and products. Artifact 2 – Oval Preachers: The Oval Preachers are religious people (often male) who regularly set up camp on the Ohio State Oval and aggressively preach about controversial issues including social things like abortion, homosexuality, etc. They often have large picket signs and resort to yelling across the Oval and attempting to stop students on their way to class with forced conversations revolving around religion in relation to these controversial issues.
