{"id":6986,"date":"2006-06-25T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T13:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/porter-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2006-06-25T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T13:05:06","slug":"porter-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/25\/porter-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Porter, <i>Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-indent: -0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0in\">Porter,<br \/>\n          James E. <i>Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing<\/i>. Greenwich, Conn.:<br \/>\n          Ablex, 1998.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rhetoric is a technology&#8211;and there  is no neutral technology because all technologies are always already invested with a category bias; they are alywas socially and culturally situated (as Awtill indeed admits), constructed out of specific historical circumstances and reflecting the biases of that context&#8221; (67).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>Porter, James E. Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing. 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