{"product_id":"entitled-opinions-doxa-after-digitality-9780817361419","title":"Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rhetorical theory of opinions, especially as opinions operate within social media. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Many urgent contemporary issues--from demagoguery to white ethno-nationalism--compel us to consider opinions seriously. Yet while clichés like \"he tells it like it is\" and newer imperatives such as #BlackLivesMatter seem straightforward, haptics, emoji, and \"like\" buttons belie unexamined collective assumptions about how opinions in the digital realm function. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Caddie Alford illuminates this function by deploying the ancient Greek term for opinions: doxa. Doxa translates to \"opinion,\" but the term can also signal seemingness and expectations. Doxa's capacious meanings reveal opinions to be more than static or monolithic: With doxa, opinions become emergent, dynamic, relational, and pluralistic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Masterfully combining rhetorical frameworks as well as scholarship on opinions and digital media entanglements, Alford puts opinions into conversation with such case studies as algorithms, infrastructure, digital illiteracy, virality, and activism. She shows how \"doxa\" reveals gradations of opinions, from more reputable to less reputable. She demonstrates that these gradations are multifaceted and susceptible to interventions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntitled Opinions\u003c\/i\u003e sheds much of the baggage associated with opinions while opening up more fertile pathways of inquiry. In a world that says, \"don't read the comments,\" this book reads the comments, taking seriously content that could be easily dismissed otherwise and alchemizing judgments into implications. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaddie Alford\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509704626450,"sku":"9780817361419","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8dd568c-2db1-4f35-b419-7b25a17c0357.jpg?v=1730905231","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/entitled-opinions-doxa-after-digitality-9780817361419","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}