Feminist Rhetorical Praxis: Everyday Feminism as Public Agora

• Authors: Wray Amanda , Hurley Elise Verzosa

Title variants

Retoryka feminizmu: Everyday Feminism jako publiczna agora

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay examines the feminist rhetorical practices of the online digital media site Everyday Feminism. Focusing on the website’s social circulation (Royster and Kirsch 2012), we contend that Everyday Feminism functions as a public agora where webbed cyberfeminist rhetorical practices (Blair, Gajjala, and Tulley 2009) have a unique potential to reach public audiences and circulate in various social networks in order to potentially educate and empower others, foster conversations, and build alliances across lines of difference, time, and space.

PL

W artykule analizie poddano feministyczne strategie retoryczne występujące na stronie internetowej Everyday Feminism. Skupiając się na społecznym obiegu witryny (Royster i Kirsch 2012), autorki twierdzą, że strona Everyday Feminism pełni funkcję publicznej agory, gdzie cyberfeministyczne praktyki retoryczne (Blair, Gajjala i Tulley 2009) mają wyjątkową możliwość dotarcia do masowego odbiorcy i zaistnienia w mediach społecznościowych, po to, by edukować, udzielać wsparcia, inicjować dialog i budować porozumienia na granicy różnic, czasu i przestrzeni.

Keywords

EN

rhetoric; feminism; activism; social network; public discourse

PL

retoryka; feminizm; aktywizm; sieć społecznościowa; dyskurs publiczny

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
• Journal: Res Rhetorica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 2-11

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Wray Amanda

• University of North Carolina

author

Hurley Elise Verzosa

• Illinois State University

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Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17380/rr2016.2.1