A definition of digital rhetoric:

• a new form of communication composed, created, and distributed through new technologies;
• the processes of effectively conveying information digitally;
• the use of digital technology to enhance a reader/audience/user’s comprehension of a message;
• the art of informing, persuading, and inspiring action in an audience through digital media;
• the way people present ideas in a way that makes sense in a digital form (i.e., on screen, on video, through audio);
• a conscious awareness of the fact that choices to incorporate or exclude different digital elements affects your message to the audience, and experimentation with ways to improve the effect;
• the ways that reading and writing practices and the dynamics between writers and readers change when text moves online;
• the study of rules of composition with and through digital technologies or digital writing conventions;
• the exploration of the dynamics of an argument through the use of digital elements, such as interactive hyperlinks, visuals, audio files, etc.; and
• the analysis of the details of a digitally formed piece of information, such as the use of space, the color scheme, and the interactive elements in order to understand how to improve an argument or message. (DigiRhet, 2005)