{"id":725,"date":"2018-04-02T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=725"},"modified":"2018-07-12T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T19:54:43","slug":"better-understanding-the-medium-of-your-central-document","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/better-understanding-the-medium-of-your-central-document\/","title":{"raw":"Better Understanding the Medium of Your Central Document","rendered":"Better Understanding the Medium of Your Central Document"},"content":{"raw":"However, we should not just restrict ourselves to the <em>content<\/em> of Occupy Wall Street\u2019s Facebook page. We should also consider the <em>medium<\/em> of Occupy Wall Street\u2019s Facebook page. By this, we mean, you should not limit yourself to just the information given on the page (images, videos, words, audio) but should also look at how the Facebook page organizes, creates, maintains and distributes information. <strong>How a document presents its information is just as important as the information it presents. Understanding how the document organizes, displays and distributes information will help you better understand its rhetorical intention and effects.<\/strong> This is not limited to thinking about Facebook organizational pages \u2014you should ask this of every central document, were it a survey, a letter, a newspaper article, or some other type of document.\r\n\r\nIn order to better understand the medium you are being asked to analyze, \u00a0you can begin with some basic general questions:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What specific language is unique to the medium being used? How is your specific user using this language? (\u201cLike\u201d \u201cShares\u201d Group\u201d)<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What mechanics are UNIQUE to your SPECIFIC central document you\u2019ve focused on \u2013 i.e. a word limit, a focus on photographs, the image disappears after a set amount of time etc.<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What numbers are present on the page? What actions or documents are the numbers related to? How large are the numbers?<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the most common action on this page? Posting text? Posting photos? Commenting?<\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">How active is this page? How frequent is user activity?\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1284\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"wp-image-1284 size-medium\" \/> From Pixabay.[\/caption]<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<p>However, we should not just restrict ourselves to the <em>content<\/em> of Occupy Wall Street\u2019s Facebook page. We should also consider the <em>medium<\/em> of Occupy Wall Street\u2019s Facebook page. By this, we mean, you should not limit yourself to just the information given on the page (images, videos, words, audio) but should also look at how the Facebook page organizes, creates, maintains and distributes information. <strong>How a document presents its information is just as important as the information it presents. Understanding how the document organizes, displays and distributes information will help you better understand its rhetorical intention and effects.<\/strong> This is not limited to thinking about Facebook organizational pages \u2014you should ask this of every central document, were it a survey, a letter, a newspaper article, or some other type of document.<\/p>\n<p>In order to better understand the medium you are being asked to analyze, \u00a0you can begin with some basic general questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What specific language is unique to the medium being used? How is your specific user using this language? (\u201cLike\u201d \u201cShares\u201d Group\u201d)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What mechanics are UNIQUE to your SPECIFIC central document you\u2019ve focused on \u2013 i.e. a word limit, a focus on photographs, the image disappears after a set amount of time etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What numbers are present on the page? What actions or documents are the numbers related to? How large are the numbers?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the most common action on this page? Posting text? Posting photos? Commenting?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\">How active is this page? How frequent is user activity?<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1284\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"wp-image-1284 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-65x44.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-225x151.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/social-1989152_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-725","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":194,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/725\/revisions\/1970"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/194"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/725\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}