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Networked Exchanges, Identity, WritingUniversity of Missouri, ricejr{at}missouri.edu This article argues for a rhetoric of networked exchanges that focuses on the response. Working from Spinuzzi's call for a rhetoric of horizontal learning, it examines two kinds of online writing spaces in order to propose such a rhetoric. After surveying conflicting, academic attitudes regarding networked exchanges, the article proposes the response as a type of professional communication. A specific message board thread and a series of blog carnivals serve as examples of the rhetoric of response, a way that horizontal learning produces a specific type of networked writing identity. The article concludes with a call for response-based communication practices.
Key Words: networks exchange blogs message boards horizontal learning carnival
This version was published on July
1, 2009 Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Vol. 23, No. 3,
294-317 (2009) |
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