A Rhetoric of Electronic Communities (New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies) - Softcover

"Howard provides pratical and theoretical discussions concerning the intersections of media and community,"-IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication "Howard's theorizing helped me to understand better what may contribute to building on-line communities."-Composition Studies ?Howard's theorizing helped me to understand better what may contribute to building on-line communities.?-Composition Studies ?Howard provides pratical and theoretical discussions concerning the intersections of media and community, ?-IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

This book is a study of the power to monitor what is said, authorize who may speak, and even to determine what is and is not knowable within the context of electronic discourse communities. It tests the claim that the Internet and other wide-area networking systems promote participatory democracies and may serve as agencies for communal change by enabling the formation of resisting subjectivities.