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What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we currently deal with - making sense of information abundance, persuading others in our social network, navigating new media ecologies, and shaping broader cultural currents - also pressed upon the ancients. This volume makes this connection explicit.

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What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we currently deal with - making sense of information abundance, persuading others in our social network, navigating new media ecologies, and shaping broader cultural currents - also pressed upon the ancients. This volume makes this connection explicit.
Autorenporträt
Michele Kennerly is assistant professor and the director of effective speech at Penn State University. She is author of Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics. Damien Smith Pfister is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He is author of Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere.