Networked media, networked rhetorics : attention and deliberation in the early blogosphere /

Pfister, Damien Smith, 1977-

Networked media, networked rhetorics : attention and deliberation in the early blogosphere / Damien Smith Pfister. - University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - Rhetoric and democratic deliberation ; volume 10 .

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Three challenges for public deliberation -- Cultural technologies of publicity : rhetorics, public spheres, and digital communication networks -- Flooding the zone after Trent Lott's toast -- Ambient intimacy in Salam Pax's Where is Raed? -- Shallow quotation on RealClimate -- The prospects of networked rhetorics.

"Examines key moments in the early history of the blogosphere to understand how bloggers use digital media technology to engage in public argument. Explores blogging from a rhetorical perspective, asking how the digital medium of communication changes the conditions for persuasion"--Provided by publisher.



9780271065809


Blogs--Political aspects.
Rhetoric--Political aspects.
Deliberative democracy.


Electronic Books.

HM851 / .N489 2014