1. Examining Ethos in Social Media Spaces: Crafting a Credible Identity Megan Adams: adamsm@bgsu.edu adamsm@bgsu.edu Kyle Adams: kadams@wlio.com kadams@wlio.com

2. -Defining the Social Media Landscape -Maintaining an Ethical Presence Online -Connecting Discussions to Pedagogy

3. landscape

4. How information travels Objectives for engagement –Gain followers, generate re- tweets, likes, etc. –To distribute accurate, relevant information

5. interactions

6. chatter Where things get muddled/Challenges

7. ethos

8. pedagogy Why should rhetors concern themselves with processes of reproduction and distribution? Because rhetorical compositions can only address exigencies if they get to an audience if they are reproduced and distributed. D. Sheridan, J. Ridolfo, & A. Michel Teachers should themselves be engaging in new media scholarship (as opposed to scholarship about new media), because such engagement plays a pivotal role in changing how our discipline values the rigor and academic heft of multimodal scholarship. - C. Ball (2004) If we can teach students to critique the rhetorical and visual features of professional hypertexts-the audience stance, presentations of ethos, transparency of the interface for readers, and the hybridity of forms and identities-we can also teach them to design their own technological artifacts that use these strategies but are more speculative or activist in nature. –M. Hocks (2003)

9. Works Cited Ball, C. E. (2004). Show, not tell: The value of new media scholarship. Computers and Composition, 21, 403-425. Halbritter, S. K. (2013). Mics, cameras, symbolic action: Audio-visual rhetoric for writing teachers. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. Hocks, M. (2003). Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments. College Composition and Communication 54 (4), 629-656. Selber, S. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Selfe, C. & Selfe R. (1994). The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones. College Composition and Communication, 45(4), 480- 504. Sheridan, M., Ridolfo, J., & Michel, A. (2012). The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. Shipka, J. (2011). Toward a composition made whole. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.