Come one, come all, to the mashup mirror—and get lost in the discursive journey of your reflection. As a response to Brown, Jr.’s call for a “mashup” approach to composing as a “matter of tuning the dial appropriately” and finding synergy between scholê and dromos (89); and Ridolfo and DeVoss’ call to consider how “rhetorical…
I read Mark Zuckerberg’s definition of identity (Odell, p. 163) as one and absolute as a consumerist trope, which wants to turn human consumers into a product—a product that is manifested as a brand with a distinctly monolithic self. This, I guess, helps the manufacturers of this product—the social media companies in this context—to orient…
From Greek -ismos > Latin -isma > French -isme > English -ism, this suffix indicates a system or ideology. A system is a set of rules, and ideology is a systematic set of ideas—as first used in socialist and communist writings with reference to class—is related to political and economic conditions. Dataism (the term coined…