journal 6

If I was going to design a website about my topic i would focus more on movie clips and pictures more so than text to depict my point. In order to keep the site simple, i would use as few words as possible and use color and layout to help identify the tone or mood to the reader. I think myspace and facebook are somewhat accurate because most people are honest about their likes and dislikes and opinions, they can be misleading when they are over-critisized because they are simple web-pages that are essentially a brief memoir/photo-album of an individuals life. Because these sites are so brief they can't be too specific, so that would obviously affect their overall accuracy. And of course people are usually biased when they talk about themselves. Images can achieve more rhetorical goals because they can change the context of the words about them, they can show an opinion or point of view much easier and more clearly than words can. Words are appropriate when a more specific or fact-based arguement is being presented. In a stronger arguement words will provide more defense then a picture would.