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• Front Cover
• Controversial Encounters in the Age of Algorithms: How Digital Technologies Are Stifling Public Debate and What to Do About It
• Copyright information
• Contents
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The Closing of the Rhetorical Mind
• Technologies of persuasion
• We don't talk anymore
• Another turn of the culture wars
• I miss my pre-internet brain
• Break the internet
• Make disagreement good again
• Kiss the specifics
• 2 Press Play: Organizing Digital Communication
• Online-offline integration
• Communicative and organizational convergence
• The financialized circulation of affect
• Playbour and the produsage of value in digital capitalism
• You be my body for me
• Organizing digital communication
• 3 The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere
• Not another literature review
• Publics are queer creatures
• Subject to freedom
• Information wants to be free
• Calculated publics
• Datafied subjects
• Is Habermas on Twitter?
• Only connect
• No manners
• What do we need the concept of publics for?
• 4 Controversial Encounters of the First Kind: The Theory and Practice of Controversy
• The Mytilene debate: a paradigm for deliberative rhetoric
• Deliberative rhetoric: deciding for an uncertain future
• Between deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism: situating controversia
• A note on (de)contextualization
• Arguing from all sides
• Reviving controversia
• The plight of rhetoric
• Rhetoric, check your privilege
• Contemporary controversies
• The measure of controversial encounters
• 5 Controversial Encounters of the Second Kind: Sweet Consensus and Nasty Conflict
• The mother of all online controversy
• Controversies without remainder
• Memetic circulation
• Datafied affect
• Sweet consensus
• Nasty conflict
• Spirals of detached entrenchment.
• The revenge of transmission theory
• 6 Controversial Encounters of the Third Kind: Towards Automated Persuasion?
• ChatGPT, are there any communications?
• The road less travelled
• What the heck is generative AI anyway?
• Sociotechnical imaginaries of AI
• The work of art in the age of automation
• Who owns AI art?
• Does AI art hold political potential?
• Decentring persuasive intent
• Are digital technologies persuasive?
• 7 Affective Alternatives: Opening the Rhetorical Mind
• Broadening the affective repertoire
• One more time with feeling
• No hate, no bigotry
• What's love got to do with it?
• Becoming mutually vulnerable
• An armour of something
• I don't want your hope
• Is digital circulation the master's tool?
• 8 Make Disagreement Good Again
• There is always the other option
• Like what you hate: curating controversial encounters
• Since feeling is first: embodying resistance
• I would prefer not to: interrupting flows
• I beg to differ: introducing an ethics of contestability
• References
• Index.

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9781529238365 ((electronic bk.))

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