KM World: The Net as rhetoric
KM World: The Net as rhetoric"The emergence of new rhetorical forms shouldn't surprise us, for new forms always emerge when technology enables new types of connections. Telegraphs created their own rhetorical form—one favoring brevity as surely as cell phone-based instant messaging does—as did telephones. Even answering machines have given rise to a type of rhetoric, one that follows the beep. But the Internet is different because its openness means it has no one form of discourse it prefers and enables us to invent new ones. And we are doing so at a rapid pace."
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