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"Trendspotting" by Demetri Martin on The Daily Show - 0 views

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    Watch the following segment from The Daily Show called "Trendspotting."
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"Trendspotting" by Demetri Martin on The Daily Show | Diigo - 0 views

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  • Rhetoric is important in the advertising industry, and in a way, I’m kind of selling my page to other people.
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      Ryan Meehan on 22 Sep 08
       
      Great response, Angela. I appreciate your wiliingness to be so thorough here. Let me ask you, though. You make a good point that maintaining and updating a social networking profile page is a way in which you can "sell your page," and that you employ similar tactics to ad agencies trying to sell products. My question would be: What do you suppose your product is? In other words, why are you focused on driving more traffic to your page?
  • You need body language, eye contact, touch, sound, inflection!
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      Ryan Meehan on 27 Sep 08
       
      Great point. In what ways do you think we account for the lack of "traditional" rhetorical tools we have available to us in the online format?
  • who by the way has other funny stand up videos on You Tube, you should check them out
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      Ryan Meehan on 27 Sep 08
       
      Your instructor agrees.
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  • The Daily Show sometimes takes the rhetoric of pathos to the extreme and ruins the validity of their argument all together.
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      Ryan Meehan on 27 Sep 08
       
      I think this is an interesting point that might be worth exploring a bit more in-depth at some point in the semester. Does The Daily Show get a "free pass" due to its status as a comedy show? What are some undoubtedly valid arguments it has presented over the years, and what are some examples of arguments that maybe get lost in the slapstick?
  • I think that my page truly represents who I am
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      Ryan Meehan on 27 Sep 08
       
      This comment reminds me of a discussion I have had with previous classes about the rhetoric of clothing and body decorations (tatoos, piercings, etc) Many students would often say something to the effect of "My clothes help me express who I am as a person." I sometimes think of Facebook the same way - it's like the clothes we wear on the Internet.
  • (Prostitot- preteen/young teen girls who dressing in a slutty-esque fashion.
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      Ryan Meehan on 27 Sep 08
       
      Brilliant!
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