| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
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Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction: From the dark side of digital composing to #RhetOps / Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson -- Part I: Rhetorical operations and emerging tactics -- 1. The rhetoric of infrastructure: American colonialism and the military telegraph / Elizabeth Losh -- 2. Revisting "A soldier's guide to rhetorical theory": intelligence analysis in the open / Gary Mills -- 3. Rhetoric and the US intelligence community's misuses of theory / Nate Kreuter -- 4. Insurgent rhetorics and historical materialism / Mike Edwards -- 5. Minerva rising: the Pentagon's weaponization of rhetorical knowledge / John Gagnon -- 6. Insurgent circulation, weaponized media: waging the late Sixties war within / Brad E. Lucas -- 7. Gamergate: understanding the tactics of online knowledge disruptors / Michael Trice -- Part II: Digital practices -- 8. ISIS versus the United States: rhetorical battle in the Middle East / William M. Marcellino and Madeline Magnuson -- 9. Stormwatch: machine learning approaches to understanding white supremacy online -- 10. Dark interactions: interfaces and objects arrays as surveillance in digital rhetoric -- 11. Digital surveillance of gang communication: graffiti's rhetorical velocity between street gangs and urban law enforcement / Seth Long and Ken Fitch -- Part III: Practitioner stories -- 12. Digital age education: preparing warriors for hybrid conflict at Air Force Cyberworx / Jeffrey Collins and Gary Mills -- 13. Mapping the rhetoric-operations divide: considerations for the future / Angie Mallory -- 14. Social media strategy for the military-engaged American Red Cross / Laura A. Ewing -- 15. Changing technologies and writing from and about war / D. Alexis Hart and Cheryl Hatch -- 16. Military wives as rhetorical insurgents: resisting assimilation as "force multipliers" / Elise Dixon -- Afterword: Inventing a critical praxis of engagement on social media platforms / Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson |
| Summary |
"In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice within mobile technologies and social networks: to reflect not only on the durable question of what it means to conduct oneself ethically as a speaker or writer, but also what it means to learn the art of rhetoric as a means to engage adversaries in war and conflict"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2019) |
| Subject |
Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Philosophy
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
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Digital communications -- Political aspects
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ridolfo, Jim, 1979- editor.
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Hart-Davidson, Bill, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019020485 |
| ISBN |
9780822987192 |
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0822987198 |
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