Technical Communication Quarterly Jun 2009

Woodward Paths: Motorizing Space

Jeff Rice University of Missouri

Abstract

This essay takes up the call for a rhetoric of distributed space by proposing a folksonomic rhetoric. Folksonomies, systems in which users may name any object, space, idea, or image any name they want, offer technical communicators new possibilities for how they work in network environments. As a way to explore the possibility of a folksonomic rhetoric, this essay examines 1 specific space, Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as if it were a folksonomic space.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2009-06-09
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10.1080/10572250902942000
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