In doing research for my rhetoric paper, I come across this.

[kiaxet]

"Even more than the examples from personal blogs, this example from a community blog shows that icons can be rhetorical in a Burkean sense—they were used to not only identify the user but as a rhetorical move whereby a specialized activity (making a certain type of visual image) showed certain users to be in the know (a part of the inside joke) of the community."

*points to icon*

*returns to research*

Comments

[princealia.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, did someone write that about the squad or are you just using that as an example?

[kiaxet]

It's actually a paper about the functionality of icons on LJ - it was presented at a rhetoric conference this summer and I'm using it as a reference for my paper. I'm just realizing that everything it says applies to me, and that was the first example that came to mind from that.

I do have other examples, of course:






Huzzah for inside jokes. XD

[travitaemorte.livejournal.com]

...Nough Said.

[kiaxet]

Exactly. XDb

[maiiau]

GIP.