Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues

Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers a framework for theorizing ethics in digital and networked media. While the field of rhetoric and writing studies has traditionally given attention to Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus dialogues, this volume updates Aristotle’s basic framework of hexis for the digital age. According to Aristotle, “When men change their hexeis —their dispositions, habits, comportments, and so on, in relation to an activity—they change their thought.”   Rhetoric, Techno