Digital Detroit : rhetoric and space in the age of the network / Jeff Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Jeff (Jeff R.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Digital communications--Philosophy.

Digital communications.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Michigan--Detroit.

Philosophy.

Michigan--Detroit.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.

Summary:

In Digital Detroit, Jeff Rice works toward a theory and pedagogy of the network, attempting to create a rhetorical model that is conducive for electronic culture. Rice explores how a physical space-in this case, Detroit, Michigan-can be seen as an interactive network. Cities and other spaces are often thought of in terms of their fixed locations on a map, but as Rice explains, each point in space has historical, cultural, personal, and social connections, some explicit, some implicit, which transform the spaces into something far more dynamic and complex than a geographical entity. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Networks, Place, and Rhetoric 15

2 Woodward Avenue 56

3 The Maccabees 102

4 The Michigan Central Train Station 143

5 8 Mile 186.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809330874

0809330873

9780809330881

0809330881

OCLC:

730054546