Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory

Technical Communication Quarterly Jul 2005

Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory

James P. Zappen

Abstract

This article surveys the literature on digital rhetoric, which encompasses a wide range of issues, including novel strategies of self-expression and collaboration, the characteristics, affordances, and constraints of the new digital media, and the formation of identities and communities in digital spaces. It notes the current disparate nature of the field and calls for an integrated theory of digital rhetoric that charts new directions for rhetorical studies in general and the rhetoric of science and technology in particular.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2005-07-01
DOI: 10.1207/s15427625tcq1403_10
Open Access: Closed
Topics: digital rhetoric

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