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

Mifsud – On Rhetoric as Gift/Giving

Citation: Mifsud, Marilee. “On Rhetoric as Gift/Giving.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 40.1 (2007): 89-107. Print. Abstract: The article discusses rhetoric as an invitation to an audience to invest its attention in an object and hence can be seen as part of an overarching general economy. Gift-giving is a reciprocity engaged in by the giver and recipient, as rhetoric is part of a debate. The Athenian polis as a state center presents the situation... 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

Ghosh – Cooking Pot Markets: An Economic Model for Trade in Free Goods and Services on the Internet

Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer. “Cooking Pot Markets:  An Economic Model for Trade in Free Goods and Services on the Internet.” First Monday 3.2 (1998). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/580/501>. This article considers the motivations for producing free products – like Firefox, Netscape and other open-source (or not) freeware – for download over the internet.  The author argues that neither... Read More