Rhetoric Online - Barbara Warnick David S Heineman Kartoniert (TB)

The second edition of Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media has been extensively revised and expanded in order to systematically examine how rhetorical theory can be applied to political activity across a wide range of new media technologies. Warnick and Heineman study the web as a public sphere touching on how websites social media smartphone applications blogs viral video and web-based anti-institutional practices such as hacktivism impact everything from electoral politics to activism. Furthermore they provide critical insight into how rhetoricians might consider existing theori es of persuasion identity narrative intertextuality social movements and more in the context of evolving new media technology. This edition contains completely new chapters on viral video social identity and social media and anti-institutional politics online.