The Rhetoric of Outrage, Jeff Rice
The Rhetoric of Outrage, Jeff Rice
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The Rhetoric of Outrage
Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

Author: Jeff Rice

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 11 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/25/2023


Synopsis

An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage

On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter.

Reddit. Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry, Jeff Rice addresses the critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across platforms
and sheds new light on how our anger is not merely a reaction against singular events but generated out of aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.

About Jeff Rice

Jeff Rice was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1944, but spent his early childhood in Beverly Hills. He is best known as the author of The Kolchak Papers, which was still unpublished when it was optioned for television and adapted for a TV audience as The Night Stalker. It subsequently had a brief print run when the Kolchak: The Night Stalker TV series grew in popularity. Jeff lives in Las Vegas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by AJ

Audiobook. Super academic so not especially engaging, but there are some very interesting parts interspersed. I suppose it probably works better for you if you have an indepth knowledge of statistics and algorithms.......more