Design
The implicit, multimodal principles of organization informing an entity's existence, as well, as the process of actively developing this entity's organization
Design-as-Argument
The implicit argument communicated by a work of (multimedia) scholarship's design
Digital Autoethnography
A research methodology involving digitally generated recordings of the researcher as data source
Icon-Coding
A method of analysis using visual icons to code a data source
Inscape
The way the pieces of a webtext come together in a particular, unique way in order to generate or otherwise communicate an implicit design-as-argument
Invention
An ongoing process of generating ideas through negotiation with rhetorical situations and communicative media (including their affordances and constraints)
Invention Narrative
A sequential account of the invention process as focalized through the perspective and experience of a human composer
Inventive Juxtaposition
The process of bringing together various pieces and components in order to exploratively generate new ideas, as well as the resulting assemblage of components
Material Influence
An impact on the invention process exerted by an agency outside of or apart from the human composer's control
Metaphor
For the purposes of this project, a concrete object whose organizing logics inform the design, argument, and structure of a webtext or other work of multimodal scholarship
Multimedia Scholarship
A project seeking to communicate generalized knowledge derived from systematic research and informing theoretical frameworks, and that deliberately takes advantage of its media environment to communicate an argument implicitly via multi-channel design resources and principles (as well as explicitly via alphabetic discussion)
People
For the purposes of this project, human agents who impact the webtext invention and design process (apart from the composer, who is likewise typically a human agent but whose presence and impact on the webtext invention process are assumed by default)
Piece
For the purposes of this project, a component of a webtext with a distinct rhetorical purpose that serves to facilitate the overall user experience, such as navigation, backgrounds, and focal media elements
Tool
For the purposes of this project, a digital editing resource (software, platform, interface, etc.) used to act on and integrate the pieces of a webtext during the invention process (and that also exerts its own agency which may complement or challenge that of the human composer)
Webtext
A work of scholarship, such as an article, book, or book review, designed specifically to take advantages of the affordances of a web environment
