New Media Ecology and Theoretical Foundations for Nonfiction Digital Narrative Creative Practice

Digital storytelling techniques and persuasive communications are becoming increasingly intertwined realized in cultural discourses such as heritage, environmental activism, politics. Rhetorical theory has grounded influenced communication practice since the age of oration, society is undergoing new mediatization, digital rhetorical can be reexamined applied to nonfiction narratives for improved practice. Narratology provides key theoretical foundations that braided into rhetoric application narratives. This article highlights how media changed impacts modes persuasion (ethos, pathos, logos, kairos) on today's multimedia-consuming audiences classical canons (invention, arrangement, style, delivery, memory) reframed updated by incorporating narrative aid creators across different genres.