Week 5's Readings
Writing and Designing in the Public Sphere Week 5's module centers around the concept of "visual rhetoric", which is commonly used to describe the concept of influencing people's minds and beliefs via the usage of different symbols. In today's world, where humanity's attention span is rapidly dwindling and dwindling, big and bold symbols are one of the main things that can draw an audience's attention, regardless of the medium or career utilizing them. Something displaying visual rhetoric has these three concepts in mind: symbolic action (featuring a tenuous and arbitrary relationship to the concept it is trying to symbolize, such as doves and peace, as displayed in the image above), human intervention (which requires human action to transform non-rhetorical objects into something rhetorical, such as doves quickly becoming associated with peace by the masses), and the presence of an audience, whether authentic or pretend (or online, as is the case with t...