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Considering Chronos and Kairos in Digital Media Rhetorics

Considering Chronos and Kairos in Digital Media Rhetorics

Ashley Rose Kelly, Meagan Kittle Autry, Brad Mehlenbacher
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466649163|ISBN10: 146664916X|EISBN13: 9781466649170
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch012
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Kelly, Ashley Rose, et al. "Considering Chronos and Kairos in Digital Media Rhetorics." Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World, edited by Gustav Verhulsdonck and Marohang Limbu, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 227-247. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch012

APA

Kelly, A. R., Autry, M. K., & Mehlenbacher, B. (2014). Considering Chronos and Kairos in Digital Media Rhetorics. In G. Verhulsdonck & M. Limbu (Eds.), Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World (pp. 227-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch012

Chicago

Kelly, Ashley Rose, Meagan Kittle Autry, and Brad Mehlenbacher. "Considering Chronos and Kairos in Digital Media Rhetorics." In Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World, edited by Gustav Verhulsdonck and Marohang Limbu, 227-247. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch012

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Abstract

Any account of the rhetoric of digital spaces should begin not with the provocation that rhetoric is impoverished and requires fresh import to account for new media technologies, but instead with a careful analysis of what is different about how digital technologies afford or constrain certain utterances, interactions, and actions. Only then might one begin to articulate prospects of a digital rhetoric. This chapter examines the importance of time to an understanding the rhetoric of digital spaces. It suggests that rhetorical notions of kairos and chronos provide an important reminder that it is the rhetorical situation, along with rhetorical actors at individual to institutional levels, that construct the discursive spaces within which people participate, even in digitally-mediated environments.

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