Setting out broadly and together with questions such as, “What are digital rhetorics now?” and “What, as rhetoric and writing readers, writers, teachers, researchers, and learners might we do with digital rhetorics?”—In ENGL6344, we will inquire into a set of rhetorical concepts, language patterns, and conditions commonly associated with digital environments: hypertext, database-vs-story, avatar/identity, artificial intelligences, attention structures, and dataism. The course is designed to be expansively but manageably kaleidoscopic, seeing/seeking many directions and possibilities at once among the intersecting through lines shared across these concepts; given this, as your own historical, critical, practical, and theoretical interests emerge, you will develop a stepped project to be shaped through shorter then longer episodes, from 90-word reactions, to 2-3 blog carnivals, and, ultimately, to a course reflection. No prior experience with practices or studies related to digital rhetorics is required. Insofar as digital environments to bookmark for continuing returns, the course extends into the following locations: