What does such a scene indicate about the rhetorical power of young activists, about their relationships with their audiences, and about the persua-sive tactics they employ to accomplish their ends? This book begins from such scenes, in which public and media attention rests upon children, teens, and other youth as they engage in acts of petition, protest, organizing, an…
In Writing Machines (2002), N. Katherine Hayles argues for electronic textuality, a condition of text that includes “signifying components” such as “sound, an-imation, motion, video, kinesthetic involvements, and software functionality” (20). Calling her approach to analyzing non-print texts “media-specific analy-sis” (29?31), she broadens the scope of litera…
In recent decades, a flurry of excellent scholarship has described media and processes of mediation in increasingly expansive terms. Media, much of this work posits, is not only the specific technologies by which informa-tion is disseminated, but also any communicative conduit that conveys ideas or meaning between one place or person and another. As Lars Ellestr…