Digital Detroit : rhetoric and space in the age of the by Jeff Rice

By Jeff Rice

Since the 1967 riots that ripped aside the town, Detroit has usually been seen both as a spot in ruins or a city at the verge of rejuvenation. In Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and area within the Age of the Network, writer Jeff Rice is going past the idea of Detroit as easily a urban of 2 rules. as an alternative he explores the town as an online of a number of meanings which, within the electronic age, come jointly within the city’s areas to shape a community that shapes the writing, the job, and the very considering these round it.

Rice focuses his examine on 4 of Detroit’s so much iconic places—Woodward street, the Maccabees development, Michigan principal Station, and eight Mile—covering every one in a separate bankruptcy. each one of those chapters explains one of many 4 good points of community rhetoric: folksono(me), the affective interface, reaction, and selection making. As those rhetorical good points attach, they shape the final community referred to as electronic Detroit. Rice demonstrates how new media, equivalent to podcasts, wikis, blogs, interactive maps, and the net often, knit jointly Detroit right into a electronic community whose identification is fluid and ever-changing. In telling Detroit’s spatial tale, Rice deftly illustrates how this new media, as a rhetorical perform, eventually shapes understandings of area in ways in which computing device purposes and town making plans usually can't. the result's a version for a brand new state of mind and interacting with house and the mind's eye, and for a greater realizing of the demanding situations community rhetorics pose for writing.

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All of my information I gather and assemble is internal to that network. These previous references—a contemporary op-ed article, a 1940s historical book, a kitschy song, a novelist’s travel memoirs, a car commercial—are database items within that network. Everything I produce, therefore, is a network as well. In this production, I “find wider possibilities, create networks and links, and make places and selves in ways beyond standardized purposes” (Kolb 192). The network I call Detroit includes Sammy Davis Jr.

As if they are attempts to navigate a conflicted present and past, Detroit narratives often fluctuate between demolishments of some sort and rejuvenations as response. These narratives act as controlling mechanisms for how we interpret the city’s positioning in American culture; they function as circulated, yet fixed, topoi; they map the city’s spaces. Neither Logan nor the city are the first to express the sentiment of renewal; they are not the only ones who attempt to control a particular city image with this tale of a body that rises from the ashes of its failures, whether through new people or new beliefs.

Ever since Google released easy-to-use software tools for its nifty on-screen maps of streets and satellite images a year ago, fans have set off an explosion of creative overlaps, adding their own useful and sometimes quirky data” (Bahree). All of this “data”—symbolic, iconic, personal—generates an 18 Netwo rks, Place, and Rhe toric evolving definition of spatial mapping, one that negotiates fixed spaces (streets) as well as ephemeral spaces (quirky data). “Centuries ago,” Paul Virilio writes, “matter was defined by two dimensions: mass and energy.

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