ABSTRACT
This edited volume presents selected works from the 20th Biennial Alta Argumentation Conference, sponsored by the National Communication Association and the American Forensics Association and held in 2017. The conference brought together scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America to engage in intensive conversations about how argument functions in our increasingly networked society.
The essays discuss four aspects of networked argument. Some examine arguments occurring in online networks, seeking to both understand and respond more effectively to the acute changes underway in the information age. Others focus on offline networks to identify historical and contemporary resources available to advocates in the modern day. Still others discuss the value-added of including argumentation scholars on interdisciplinary research teams analyzing a diverse range of subjects, including science, education, health, law, economics, history, security, and media. Finally, the remainder network argumentation theories explore how the interactions between and among existing theories offer fruitful ground for new insights for the field of argumentation studies.
The wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches employed in Networking Argument make this volume a unique compilation of perspectives for understanding urgent and sustaining issues facing our society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Keynote Address
chapter 1|14 pages
Disavowing networks, affirming networks
part I|2 pages
Spotlighted Theories and Practices of Networking Argument
part II|2 pages
Strategic Use of Definition in Networked Argument
chapter 14|6 pages
What Makes a Woman a Woman?
chapter 16|6 pages
The Visible and the Invisible
chapter 17|6 pages
When Do Perpetrators Count
part III|2 pages
Strategic Use of Association and Dissociation in Networked Argument
chapter 21|6 pages
Petitioning a Mormon God
chapter 26|6 pages
Hispanic Politicians on the Rise
chapter 27|5 pages
Escaping the “Broken Middle”
chapter 29|6 pages
Accumulating Affect and Visual Argument
part IV|2 pages
Strategic Use of Authority in Networked Arguments
chapter 31|7 pages
Challenging a Culture of Secrecy
chapter 34|7 pages
Climate Change Argumentation
chapter 35|6 pages
Networking, Circulation, and Publicity of Climate Change Discourses and Arguments
chapter 40|6 pages
Argument and the Foundations of Social Networks
chapter 41|7 pages
Data Cannot Speak for Themselves
part V|2 pages
Argument Circulation in Online Networks
chapter 43|6 pages
Arguments of a New Virtual Religion
chapter 44|7 pages
“Nasty Women”
chapter 45|6 pages
The Rage Network
chapter 46|7 pages
Polemic platforms and the “woman card”
chapter 47|7 pages
Following affective winds over panmediated networks
chapter 48|7 pages
Je (Ne) Suis…
chapter 49|8 pages
Memes as commonplace
chapter 50|6 pages
Critical deliberation under fire
chapter 52|7 pages
Too Srat to Care
chapter 53|7 pages
Social physics and the moral economy of spreadable media
part VI|2 pages
Argument Circulation in Offline Networks
chapter 56|5 pages
To tell our own truths
chapter 60|6 pages
Appearance trumps substance
chapter 62|7 pages
Networking legal arguments
part VII|2 pages
Evaluating Argumentation Networks
chapter 69|6 pages
Building Arguments and Attending to Face in Small Claims Court
chapter 72|7 pages
The Micropolitics of Control
part VIII|2 pages
Evaluating Debating Networks