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Entitled Opinions: Doxa after Digitality

English

By (author): Caddie Alford

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts

Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality offers a rhetorical theory of opinions, especially as opinions operate within social media.

Many urgent contemporary issuesfrom demagoguery to white ethno-nationalismcompel us to consider opinions seriously. Yet while clichÉs like he tells it like it is and newer imperatives such as #BlackLivesMatter seem straightforward, haptics, emoji, and like buttons belie unexamined collective assumptions about how opinions in the digital realm function.

Caddie Alford illuminates this function by deploying the ancient Greek term for opinions: doxa. Doxa translates to opinion, but the term can also signal seemingness and expectations. Doxas capacious meanings reveal opinions to be more than static or monolithic: With doxa, opinions become emergent, dynamic, relational, and pluralistic.

Masterfully combining rhetorical frameworks as well as scholarship on opinions and digital media entanglements, Alford puts opinions into conversation with such case studies as algorithms, infrastructure, digital illiteracy, virality, and activism. She shows how doxa reveals gradations of opinions, from more reputable to less reputable. She demonstrates that these gradations are multifaceted and susceptible to interventions.

Entitled Opinions sheds much of the baggage associated with opinions while opening up more fertile pathways of inquiry. In a world that says, dont read the comments, this book reads the comments, taking seriously content that could be easily dismissed otherwise and alchemizing judgments into implications. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 481g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 31 May 2024
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780817321925

About Caddie Alford

Caddie Alford is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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