Porter – Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy

Porter, James E.  “Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy.”  in Rhetorics and Technologies : New Directions in Writing and Communication. Ed. Stuart Selber. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Print. P. begins by noting that the digital economy of Web 2.0 should signal a paradigmatic shift in how we understand writing and rhetoric.  Relying on Anderson’s The Long Tail and Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, P.... Read More

Webb, Schirato, and Danaher – Understanding Bourdieu

Webb, Jen, Tony Schirato, and Geoff Danaher Understanding Bourdieu. Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2002. Print. This introduction to famed sociologist Pierre Bourdieu provides an overview of some of his most important conceptualizations including: cultural fields, cultural capital, symbolic capital, habitus, and practice.  In addition, this work also provides an overview of the different strands of thinking that informed Bourdieu’s work and how his own... Read More