If you do not listen to a community, you cannot learn how to persuade its members. Apparently, it is impossible for some people to listen…
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Mass media and their role in public policy and cultural debates.
Something to consider within media: magazines, newspaper, talk radio, and now cable news networks grow rapidly when they are perceived to be in the opposition.…
Comments closedWhy is ‘a’ an a? What is a? It’s more than one sound. To the deaf, it’s a glyph used to build words, but not…
Comments closedFilm is capital intensive, in the economic sense. The making of a movie involves individual human capital, social capital, natural capital, manufactured capital, and financial…
Comments closedMemes simply purify our social circles; they are partisanship intensifiers. It is a shame, but this is how humans create their communities. The internet allows…
Comments closedI’m stuck in bed or sitting for a few minutes at a time. This has led to way too much social media and news input.…
Comments closedMy colleagues in rhetoric study logical fallacies and reasoning. Yet, over the years many of them have dismissed the extreme hyperbole of fellow elites on…
Comments closedDonald Trump might win tomorrow’s presidential election. It’s going to be closer than pundits have admitted. The data are not as overwhelming for Hillary Clinton as…
Comments closedAs the election approaches, I’ve noticed that some generally good analyses begin with the worst of rhetorical devices: insults. For every online post you celebrate…
Comments closedThe last decade has demonstrated the power of social media in mass revolutions, even if those revolutions fizzle or come to disastrous ends. The Arab…
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