Author: cnlauer

Like Doug Eyman, who began this blog carnival a few weeks ago, I started trying to define the phrase “digital rhetoric” about a decade ago. There were already many conversations going on in which the phrase was being bandied about. A decade ago there were already listings in the MLA job database that asked for expertise in “digital rhetoric” and courses being taught on the subject, but it seemed to me at the time that the term was being used without any common sense of its history, its disciplinary character, or its basic philosophical orientation. It seemed like a slippery…