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Writing Civic Spaces: A Theory of Civic Rhetorics in a Digital Age

Dadas, Caroline E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303936571

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, English.
In this project, Writing Civic Spaces: A Theory of Civic Rhetorics in a Digital Age, I explore how citizens are using digital technologies to participate in civic processes. Although scholars have begun looking at civic rhetoric online, I extend this conversation by focusing on the use of social networks for civic participation. Based on an analysis of online texts and interviews with online participants, I theorize civic rhetorics for a digital age and how citizens are using the affordances of networked and digital technologies to create online texts that in some cases serve as publics spheres and in other instances lack the presence of debate necessary for a public sphere. Through this theory of civic rhetorics I seek to inform future scholarship, pedagogies, and methodologies in rhetoric and composition, guiding the field in one of its central concerns: to prepare critical, engaged citizens. Ultimately, this project generates a rhetorical participatory framework for meaningful engagement in online civic activity, covering a range of strategies from designing more generous website interfaces to negotiating the increasingly blurred boundaries between the civic and the political.
Michele Simmons, PhD (Committee Chair)
Heidi McKee, PhD (Committee Member)
Kate Ronald, PhD (Committee Member)
Jason Palmeri, PhD (Committee Member)
Leighton Peterson, PhD (Committee Member)
233 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
Civic rheorics; digital rhetorics; civic participation; Proposition 8; multimodality

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  • Dadas, C. E. (2011). Writing Civic Spaces: A Theory of Civic Rhetorics in a Digital Age [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303936571

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dadas, Caroline. Writing Civic Spaces: A Theory of Civic Rhetorics in a Digital Age. 2011. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303936571.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dadas, Caroline. "Writing Civic Spaces: A Theory of Civic Rhetorics in a Digital Age." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1303936571

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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