topical media & game development
argument(s)
- subject-centered -- common beliefs, use of logic, examples
- viewer-centered -- patriotisms, religious or romantic sentimentality
- from source -- the makers are intelligent, well-informed, sincere trusthworthy

classical
- logos -- logic, reason, factual data
- pathos -- emotion of audience, -- how it feels
- ethos -- appeals to reputation of speaker-- trustworthy

storytelling -- POV
- single --
- multiple --
- omniscient --
- reflective --
Vox Populi -- multiple viewpoints:
multiple and conflicting viewpoints can
be invoked and material can be focused into in brief screen time

presentation form -- media driven
- propagandist --
- binary communicator
- mind opener

rethorical form -- media driven
- rebuttals -- lead to opposite conclusions
- undercutters -- attack connection between reason and conclusion
- sequential weakening -
- parallel weakening -

emotion groups
- well-being -- joy, distress
- fortune of others -- happy-for, gloating, resentment, sorry-for
- prospect-based -- hope, fear, satisfaction, fears-confirmed,
relief, disappointment
- attribution -- pride, shame, admiration, reproach
- attraction -- liking, disliking
- well-being attribution -- gratitude, anger, gratification, remorse

(C) Æliens
27/08/2009
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