Journal 6

Think about visual/textual relationships on webpages. Find an article related to your topic and critique the webpage for its content, its graphic layout, and its reliability. Do not use Wikipedia, a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or imdb.com. If you have trouble finding an article related to your topic, then you could explore how you would design a video, movie scene, or webpage related to your topic. Think about how Myspace or Facebook depict you. Is it an accurate depiction or can webpages be misleading? Does your favorite music group have a Myspace page? If so, does it depict their style of music? How do color, pictures, layout design, and text all work together to create an image about the topic you are dealing with? Post the webpage you are analyzing along with the journal entry. Also, consider how words and images differ rhetorically. Can we accomplish different rhetorical goals through the use of video, still images, audio, and words that we may not be able to accomplish by words alone? When is it appropriate to choose to use one medium over another? In other words, can an image do something rhetorically that a word cannot, and in what situations are words more appropriate than an image?