Digital Detroit [electronic resource] : rhetoric and space in the age of the network / Jeff Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Jeff, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Digital communications--Philosophy.

Digital communications.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Michigan--Detroit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the 1967 riots that ripped apart the city, Detroit has traditionally been viewed either as a place in ruins or a metropolis on the verge of rejuvenation. In Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, author Jeff Rice goes beyond the notion of Detroit as simply a city of two ideas. Instead he explores the city as a web of multiple meanings which, in the digital age, come together in the city's spaces to form a network that shapes the writing, the activity, and the very thinking of those around it. Rice focuses his study on four of Detroit'

Contents:

Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Networks, Place, and Rhetoric; 2. Woodward Avenue; 3. The Maccabees; 4. The Michigan Central Train Station; 5. 8 Mile; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-88174-7

9786613723055

0-8093-3088-1

OCLC:

801407253