{"id":85,"date":"2006-09-30T22:15:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T22:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-09-30T22:15:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T22:15:43","slug":"rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I conduct my content analysis of media literacy definitions, I think I&#8217;ll start with Richard Lanham.  In <em>The Electronic Word<\/em>, he points to rhetoric as the appropriate field of study in this era of the network:  &#8220;This revival of our traditional paideia includes those parts of contemporary literary criticism and cultural studies which have rediscovered that all arguments are constructed with a purpose, to serve an interest&#8211;a rediscovery symbolized by Terry Eagleton&#8217;s reflection, at the end of his literary-theory survey, that we might as well call the whole subject &#8216;Rhetoric.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIndeed, media cynics would say that the Scholastic materials about 9\/11 referenced in the last post were created as a marketing tool.  If teachers knew they had nicely packaged, already developed materials to use, they might be more tempted to integrate a television show that they otherwise would probably ignore.  One teacher, interviewed for the Education Week article, said she would never use a docudrama like that in her classroom.  I wonder if all teachers would make that decision, or if, as a part of the 5th anniversary, they would see the television show, along with the materials, as a good way to incorporate the event in their classrooms.  The materials evidently gave credit to ABC and encouraged users to watch the mini-series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I conduct my content analysis of media literacy definitions, I think I&#8217;ll start with Richard Lanham. In The Electronic Word, he points to rhetoric as the appropriate field of study in this era of the network: &#8220;This revival of our traditional paideia includes those parts of contemporary literary criticism and cultural studies which have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=85\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rhetoric<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-literacy","category-rhetoric"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4X3L0-rhetoric","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}