“There is Already Something Wrong”: Toward a Rhetorical Framework for Aging
"It is critical that scholars explore not only the emergent movement to end aging but also the phenomenon of aging itself, and that they do so from humanistic as well as scientific perspectives."
View ArticleEverybody Will Be Hip and Rich: Neoliberal Discourse in Silicon Valley
"A techno-utopian style, the aestheticization of new technology, and the valorization of perpetual revolution represent a shift away from the managerial and risk-oriented realism of prevailing free...
View ArticleWhat Counts as Inclusive?: Articulating Writing Program Stances on Divisive...
"Programmatic positions statements are a tool for generating and shaping the discourse of a program or, at the very least, making clear what a program’s expectations of writing teachers are so that...
View ArticleDiversity, Technology, and Composition: Honoring Students’ Multimodal Home...
"Media support particular modalities over others, and formally shape and ideologically infuse products based on their affordances. Hence, students must be able to analyze rhetorical contexts while...
View ArticleThe Racial Veil: Small Government Rhetoric, Neoliberalism, and School...
"Expanding on this link between the Southern Strategy and neoliberalism, I argue proponents of municipal schools in Shelby County, TN, deployed a small government rhetoric of freedom and a neoliberal...
View ArticleVol. 6.2: Rhetorics, Politics, Technologies
"Our new issue features articles on such a range of research, it's hard to write about them all at once. Articles here focus on pedagogy, students’ rights, investigations of public rhetorics, and the...
View ArticleBook Review: O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction
"Weapons of Math Destruction expands our methods and pedagogies for critically engaging with digital platforms and algorithms. The book enables, and urges us, to engage new sites, civic institutions,...
View ArticleBook Review: Massanari’s Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning...
"Reddit is like a tiny internet: a place full of memes that are often offensive and hilarious at once. A place for activism and knowledge-sharing, shitposting and trolling. A place where mob mentality...
View ArticleAlgorithms as Information Brokers: Visualizing Rhetorical Agency in Platform...
"Algorithms function as information brokers that manage, control, and direct the content that platform users can search and access; in doing so, they exert rhetorical influence by determining what...
View ArticleCorporate Kairos and the Impossibility of the Anonymous, Ephemeral Messaging...
"Yik Yak was simply too open, too democratic, too anonymous, and too ephemeral to survive in the monetization-driven world of social media platforms today. Unlike Snapchat, which we use as counterpoint...
View ArticleBuilding Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User...
"In the end, GamerGate activism resembles a churn of constant invention, moving from one celebrity to another, whether as friend or foe . Rather than possessing a single, authoritative argument,...
View ArticleHow To Be Gay with Locative Media: The Rhetorical Work of Grindr as a Platform
"Grindr has the potentiality of being such a market-mediated counterpublic, where queers can meet in virtual space, encountering difference and developing new intimacies with each other, ones that play...
View ArticleConstructing Research, Constructing the Platform: Algorithms and the...
"Researchers must be mindful of the identities they create on social media, being sure to consider the ethics of these platforms as both user and researcher. Social media platforms are powerful...
View ArticleRhetoric, Responsibility, and the Platform: An Interview with Jessica Reyman
"The tension between open authorship/open participation and the legal, cultural, and technological systems that shape them is ongoing today and will no doubt continue as we further blur the lines...
View ArticleVol. 6.3: Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Platforms
"Not only are platforms rhetorical in the sense that they occupy a public imaginary that is discursively constructed via carefully crafted branding efforts, but they are also rhetorical in that their...
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