I found an online role playing game site, called Hogwarts Extreme, for my Harry Potter thing. Link: http://www.hexrpg.com/index.php Hogwarts Extreme is an interactive roleplaying website for fans of the Harry Potter franchise, or more appropriately, for members of the Harry Potter public. Lundberg notes that a public arises through “a process of self-organization that produces [...]
I really enjoyed our discussions of publics and our trip to the Ackland this week. I was not familiar with the recent hullabaloo over the David Wojnarsowicz piece, but found it very interesting to learn about. I also found it refreshing to spend a more extended amount of time discussing some contemporary and recent discourses, [...]
After discussing various publics and specifically the publics at work around the Smithsonian/Wojnarowicz controversy, I could not stop thinking about the use and effects of public memory within specific publics. In the introduction to Rhetoric/Memory/Place, Carole Blair, Greg Dickinson, and Brian L. Ott refer to public memory as a powerful rhetorical device consisting of a [...]
In class this week we discussed publics, which J told us were groups of people who perceive themselves to be a relatively coherent whole, who are invested in the belief that they can collectively wield power, and who believe they are acting for the common good. After discussing “A Fire in My Belly” by David [...]
We defined the public in class as a specific group of individuals unified by certain types of investments in the community through the use of discourse and rhetoric. We then defined discourse as a large body of structured, symbolic though, and rhetoric as intentional, directed and persuasive. Finally, we stated how rhetoric constitutes public through: [...]
This week’s reading focuses heavily on the discourses between different Publics in our society today. To understand this topic, it is first necessary to understand how a public is defined in this case. As was discussed in class, a “Public” is considered to be a specific group of individuals united by certain investments in their [...]
