Laurie gries using zotero9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How do we understand what to do with rivers and dams? How might rhetoric, the ancient study of persuasion, inform and shape this understanding as it relates to river restoration practices? Ecological approaches to rhetoric provide ways for engaging in decision making about dams and river restoration. Using notions of trust, intimacy, authenticity, and community boundary-making in online contexts (deLaat, 2008 Williams and Copes, 2005), this project contributes to our understanding of how Tumblr’s affordances can support the process of transgressive identity-making. Additionally, the greater Tumblr community’s discursive practice of Ask Me Anything/Frequently Asked Questions pages encourage participants to submit questions and confessions and allow bloggers to reply with written posts and reaction GIFs that extend the emotional content of the text. Specifically, by leveraging Tumblr’s “reblog,” “follow” and “ask” features, Tumblr community members compose their identities by discovering and curating the posts of others alongside their own original work. 2015 Conference on College Composition and Communication Thursday, March 19 at 10:30PM Tampa, Florida The technical affordances of the social networking site Tumblr provide a unique digital space that lends itself to constructing the blogger’s identity as a bricolage of images, text, animated GIFs, memes, and other found digital objects. ![]()
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