Ancient rhetorics and digital networks /edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister.

Ancient rhetorics and digital networks /edited by Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith Pfister. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations. - Rhetoric, culture, and social critique .

Includes bibliographies and index.

On network -- Imagining confucian audiences: tactical media and the umbrella movement -- Big data and global knowledge: a protagorean analysis of the United Nations' global pulse -- On fear and longing: gorgias and the phobos and eros of visual rhetoric -- Impure imaginations: the rhetorical humors of digital virology -- Isocratean tropos and mediated multiplicity -- Plato's phaedrus and the ideology of immersion -- Genre in ancient and networked media -- Poiesis, genesis, mimesis: toward a less selfish genealogy of memes -- Remix, sunyata, and prosopopoeia: projecting voice in the digital age -- The Jaina rhetoric of nonviolence and the culture of online shaming.

"An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication"--



9780817391577


Digital communications.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)


Electronic Books.

P301 / .A535 2018