# AGENTS.md — Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse

**Paper**: Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse (2021)
**Area**: Cognitive Security
**Authors**: Mridula Mascarenhas, Richard J. Cordes, Daniel A. Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: This paper makes a case for integrating rhetorical studies with ecological studies to catalog, monitor, and study digital image meme data. We develop ...
- Evaluate: Introduces the DRE3 (Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem three-tiered) model
- Evaluate: Maps how image memes impact public narratives through parsimony and polysemy
- Evaluate: Bridges rhetorical studies and ecological systems analysis for digital discourse

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Digital rhetorical analysis
- Assess and document: Ecosystem modeling (DRE3)
- Assess and document: Image meme content analysis
- Assess and document: Comparative rhetorical-ecological framework

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this cognitive security work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: digital rhetoric, image memes, DRE3 model, narrative ecosystems, rhetorical ecology
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2021_DigitalRhetorical.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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