When looking back at everything that I've learned this semester, it's hard to choose only five of my favorite terms. I feel like there are so many that go hand in hand and also ones that overlap and blend in with each other. It makes it hard to separate them into distinct and definitive terms, but if I had to choose the top five, they would be network, circulation, mobility, assemblage, and exigence.
      Before this class, I use to think that network, circulation, and mobility, basically all kind of meant the same thing. But after diving into these words and their definitions, and reading the essays of famous rhetoric theorists, I have come to realize that while they all can work simultaneously together, they are three different concepts that function different ways. Network is the medium through which something can circulate, and mobility is the physical ability of a text to circulate through a network. A network isn't one singular thing. Millions of networks exist in the world. A network can be the community wifi in an office through which the employees can send each other things or a network can be all of the technological devices in ones house. It can also be a collection of people who are constantly in contact with each other or it can be a social media website such as YouTube. Basically, a network is an umbrella through which many mediums can fit under. Circulation is when a text is moved through a network and it is also how the texts moves. Circulation can be between two people or two thousand people. There is no cap on the number of people through which a texts can circulate. There is only a cap if you choose to put it there by keeping it contained to a certain number of people. Mobility is how a text can physically move. This terms has become much more relevant with the springing up of technology and social media within the past ten years. Now texts have huge mobility since everyone can access it through a their technological device.
     I love the term assemblage because it is not only a cool concept, but I didn't realize how many things that exist today are an assemblage. An assemblage is basically something you create out of many pieces of other things that already exist. This is sort of connected to the famous phrase that there is nothing new under the sun. This basically means that you can't create anything new, so you take other things that have already been created and put them together to make something different. This term goes closely with another term called remix.
     Finally, I really like the term exigence because of how insanely crucial I believe it is to rhetoric. Through the words of Bitzer, an exigence is an "imperfection marked by urgency," which basically means that exigence is a problem which needs fixing. And I personally believe in one way or another, all rhetoric is originally created because of an exigence.