Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now

Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More

Gross – Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies

Gross, Alan G. Starring the Text : The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies. Southern Illinois University Press, 2006. Print. Part One: The Case for the Rhetorical Analysis of Science Chapter One: The Achievements of Rhetoric of Science In the preface Gross is careful to distinguish between rhetoric as metadiscipline and rhetoric as a tool to consider the epistemology of science: rhetoric isn’t the master discipline; rather,... Read More

Loehwing & Motter – Publics, Counterpublics, and the Promise of Democracy

Citation: Loehwing, Melanie, and Jeff Motter. “Publics, Counterpublics, and the Promise of Democracy.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 220-41. Print. Abstract: The article discusses the theories of publics, counterpublics with respect to the issues, identities and politics within the disciplinary spectrum of the scholars. Scholars Jürgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser introduced the public and counterpublics theories to help elucidate... Read More

Milioni – Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere

Milioni, Dimitra. “Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere:  The Case of Indymedia Athens.” Media Culture Society 32 3 (2009). Print. Arguing against Habermas’ depiction of the online public sphere as a site of ever-increasing fragmentation and segmentation (2006), but with Habermas’ normative ideal of the public sphere in The Structural Transformation, Milioni claims that the communalization of networked digital spaces actually does... Read More

Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko – Social Capital Online

Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Ken’ichi Ikeda, and Miyata Kakuko. “Social Capital Online:  Collective Use of the Internet and Reciprocity as Lubricants of Democracy.” Information, Communication, and Society 9 5 (2006): 582-611. Print. In this article Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko argue that the internet promotes social capital in that trust and reciprocity are cultivated through participation in online communities.  The authors also point... Read More