Electric rhetoric
Subtitle: classical rhetoric, oralism, and a new literacy
By: Kathleen E. Welch.
Series: Digital communication
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Data processing.; Computers and literacy.; Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids.; Literacy -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids.
Description: "In Electric Rhetoric Kathleen E. Welch explores the profound changes in writing and discourse brought about by electronic forms of communication. To this end she integrates three related strands: the redeployment of classical Sophistic rhetoric; current literacy theories within rhetoric and compositions studies, including gender and race issues; and the inherently rhetorical nature of "screens" in relationship to writing and other communication technologies.

Throughout the book Welch deals extensively with women's issues, which have played a particularly important role in the history of oralism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index.