Discuss how does Lanier’s book hold up when viewed through contemporary scholarship?
Description Consider, then, these definitions of rhetoric (remember, rhetoric = persuasion/argumentation) from 20th and 21st-century scholars and substitute “rhetoric” for “social media”. “Rhetoric is that which creates an informed appetite for the good.” (Richard Weaver, 1948) “Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually […]