Toward a grammar of the blogosphere: Rhetoric and attention in the networked imaginary

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" Toward a grammar of the blogosphere: Rhetoric and attention in the networked imaginary "
Damien Smith Pfister G. R. Mitchell

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53807
Doc. No	:	TL23761
Call number	:	‭3375326‬
Main Entry	:	Damien Smith Pfister
Title & Author	:	Toward a grammar of the blogosphere: Rhetoric and attention in the networked imaginary\ Damien Smith Pfister
College	:	University of Pittsburgh
Date	:	2009
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2009
Page No	:	430
Abstract	:	This dissertation explores the rhetorical imaginary of internetworked societies by examining three cases where actors in the blogosphere shaped public deliberation. In each case, I analyze a trope that emerged organically as bloggers theorized their own rhetorical interventions, and argue that these tropes signal shifts in how citizens of networked societies imagine their relations. The first case study, on the blogosphere's reaction to Trent Lott's 2002 toast to Strom Thurmond, examines how bloggers "flooded the zone" by relentlessly interpreting the event and finding evidence that eventually turned the tide of public opinion against Lott. Flooding the zone signifies the inventional possibilities of blogging through the production of copious public argument. The second case study, focusing on the 2003 blogging of the Salam Pax, an English-speaking Iraqi living in Iraq on the precipice of war, develops the idea of "ambient intimacy" which is produced through the affective economy of blogging. The ambient intimacy produced through blogging illustrates the blurring of traditional public/private distinctions in contemporary public culture. The third case study, on the group science blog RealClimate , identifies how blogs have become sites for translating scientific controversies into ordinary language through a process of "shallow quotation." The diffusion of expertise enabled by the interactive format of blogging provides new avenues to close the gap between public and technical reasoning. The dissertation concludes by examining the advent and implications of "hyperpublicity" produced by ubiquitous recording devices and digital modes of circulation.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Language, literature and linguistics; Blogging; Network society; Blogosphere; Imaginary; Digital rhetoric; Attention; Communication; Rhetoric; Information science; 0723:Information science; 0681:Rhetoric; 0459:Communication
Added Entry	:	G. R. Mitchell
Added Entry	:	University of Pittsburgh