Living a Participatory Life: Reformatting Rhetoric for Demanding, Digital Times

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dc.contributor.advisorPfister, Damien Sen_US
dc.contributor.authorSalzano, Matthewen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCommunicationen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-25T05:50:11Z
dc.date.available2023-06-25T05:50:11Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractLiving a Participatory Life explores how people navigate demanding, digital times where social movements and digital media meet, in the context of what media scholars refer to as the participatory condition. The participatory condition describes how participation is an inherent, inescapable condition of digitality with its always-on and always-prompting media; it is distinctly different from the participatory cultures theorized of the blogosphere and Web 2.0. In the participatory condition, the digital is demanding, and our demands are digitized. What does it mean to live a participatory life in the participatory condition? How should we practice rhetoric (as a productive and critical art) during demanding, digital times? To aid in answering these questions, this dissertation offers a format theory of participation. I theorize four key concepts—parameters, imperatives, trans-situations, and sensibilities—to define participation as a formatted rhetorical practice that modulates affect and sensibilities within a formatted ecology. In the following three chapters, I locate three participatory sensibilities from advocates for social change across intersectional issues: Disparticipants, offering participatory dissent at the Women’s March; Fictocritics, generating criticism of the YouTube manosphere; and Installectuals, transforming Instagram during the Summer 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter activism. Each illustrates the ramifications of the participatory condition and how advocates for social change navigate it. The dissertation concludes with a provocation to learn from these sensibilities and begin reformatting our own participatory lives.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/dspace/udki-x4cd
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/30165
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledRhetoric and Compositionen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCommunicationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMultimedia communicationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledaffecten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddigital mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledparticipationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrhetorical theoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial movementsen_US
dc.titleLiving a Participatory Life: Reformatting Rhetoric for Demanding, Digital Timesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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