Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we currently deal with - making sense of information abundance, persuading others in our social network, navigating new media ecologies, and shaping broader cultural currents - also pressed upon the ancients. This volume makes this connection explicit.

About the author

Michele Kennerly is assistant professor and the director of effective speech at Penn State University. She is author of Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics.

Damien Smith Pfister is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He is author of Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere.

Summary

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication

Product details

• Authors: Michele (EDT)/ Pfister Kennerly
• Assisted by: Michele Kennerly (Editor), Damien Smith Pfister (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780817359041
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5904-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Alabama Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Alabama Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
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