Media Rhetoric How Advertising And Digital Media Influence Us 1st Edition Mateus by Mateus, Samuel (editor) 9781527567795, 1527567796 instant download after payment.

This volume considers the paramount implications to persuasive communication that media brought regarding how we think, express, argument and feel together. It is concerned with both the media practice of rhetoric activity and the rhetorical practice of media activity: it respects how the media integrated rhetorical speech, and analyses how rhetoric adapted to media societies. Media and rhetoric are highly dependent on each other because, to persuasively communicate today, media must also be considered. The book is about how the media alter the ways we talk, discuss, argue and convince. It is focused on the theoretical and empirical analysis of communication technologies such as advertising and digital technologies as persuasive mechanisms and central tenets of contemporary 21st century rhetoric. Concentrating on two of the most fundamental areas of media rhetoricadvertising and digital mediathe six chapters, authored by scholars from around the world, demonstrate how persuasive speech is exerted in, through and by the media.