Text, context, and the fragmentation of contemporary culture

(Re)locating pleasure in media studies: toward an erotics of reading

“…55 When discourse is no longer received, when the whole disciplining apparatus of the Author-God is disrupted, then and only then does Text production become "the primary task of audiences, readers, and critics." 56 Indeed, Barthes contends that "the Text is experienced only in an activity of production." 57 The Text privileges the infinity of the signifier, which "is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely acceptable) plural."…”

Det opplyste opinionsledervelde - Kommentatorstanden under svineinfluensautbruddet i 2009

“…Spesielt i en tid som vår, som mange har ment vaert preget av hyperkompleksitet (Qvortrup, 1998), superdiversitet (Vertovec, 2007 og offentlighetens fragmentering (McGee, 1990;Kjeldsen, 2008), kan kommentariatet fylle rollen som kulturelle fortolkere, meglere og veiledere. I et medielandskap der ulike budskaper skytes inn -og forsvinner ut av -ikke én offentlighet, men mange, og der avsendere og mottakere dessuten overlapper på mange og ofte uoversiktelige måter, viste kommentatorene under svineinfluensaen at de kan fungere som en integrerende kraft.…”

Theory in a Transdisciplinary Mode: the Rhetoric of Inquiry and Digital Humanities

“…If the dialectic can be split into two sidesa critical rhetoric or a rhetorical criticism-Michael Leff and Andrew Sachs, and Michael McGee, respectively, make the best candidates to represent either one. Leff and Sachs advocate for the textual object as that which does the rhetorical acting, while the critic's job is to illuminate the object and the artistry behind it (Leff and Sachs, 1990;McGee, 1990). Conversely, McGee argues that it is critics who perform the rhetorical act of giving otherwise fragmented texts the unity of a meaning and value.…”