Rhet ops : rhetoric and information warfare / edited by Jim Ridolfo and Bill Hart-Davidson.

Other author Ridolfo, Jim, 1979- editor.
Other author Hart-Davidson, Bill, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
Copyright Date©2019
Description1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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Portion of title Rhetoric and information warfare
SeriesPittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. ^A299123
Contents Introduction: From the dark side of digital composing to #RhetOps / Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson -- Part I: Rhetorical operations and emerging tactics -- 1. The rhetoric of infrastructure: American colonialism and the military telegraph / Elizabeth Losh -- 2. Revisting "A soldier's guide to rhetorical theory": intelligence analysis in the open / Gary Mills -- 3. Rhetoric and the US intelligence community's misuses of theory / Nate Kreuter -- 4. Insurgent rhetorics and historical materialism / Mike Edwards -- 5. Minerva rising: the Pentagon's weaponization of rhetorical knowledge / John Gagnon -- 6. Insurgent circulation, weaponized media: waging the late Sixties war within / Brad E. Lucas -- 7. Gamergate: understanding the tactics of online knowledge disruptors / Michael Trice -- Part II: Digital practices -- 8. ISIS versus the United States: rhetorical battle in the Middle East / William M. Marcellino and Madeline Magnuson -- 9. Stormwatch: machine learning approaches to understanding white supremacy online -- 10. Dark interactions: interfaces and objects arrays as surveillance in digital rhetoric -- 11. Digital surveillance of gang communication: graffiti's rhetorical velocity between street gangs and urban law enforcement / Seth Long and Ken Fitch -- Part III: Practitioner stories -- 12. Digital age education: preparing warriors for hybrid conflict at Air Force Cyberworx / Jeffrey Collins and Gary Mills -- 13. Mapping the rhetoric-operations divide: considerations for the future / Angie Mallory -- 14. Social media strategy for the military-engaged American Red Cross / Laura A. Ewing -- 15. Changing technologies and writing from and about war / D. Alexis Hart and Cheryl Hatch -- 16. Military wives as rhetorical insurgents: resisting assimilation as "force multipliers" / Elise Dixon -- Afterword: Inventing a critical praxis of engagement on social media platforms / Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson.
Abstract "In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice within mobile technologies and social networks: to reflect not only on the durable question of what it means to conduct oneself ethically as a speaker or writer, but also what it means to learn the art of rhetoric as a means to engage adversaries in war and conflict"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 28, 2019).
Issued in other formPrint version: Rhet ops. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press 2019 9780822945895
LCCN 2019020485
ISBN9780822987192 (electronic book)
ISBN0822987198 (electronic book)
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