Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere

by Damien Smith Pfister

In Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics, Damien Pfister explores communicative practices in networked media environments, analyzing, in particular, how the blogosphere has changed the conduct and coverage of public debate. Pfister shows how the late modern imaginary was susceptible to "deliberation traps" related to invention, emotion, and expertise, and how bloggers have played a role in helping contemporary public deliberation evade these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271064609
• ISBN13: 9780271064604
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"