Faculty
Dr. DAMIEN Smith PFISTER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, studies the impact of networked media on rhetorical practice, public deliberation, and cultural formation. His current book project, Networked Rhetorics, Networked Media: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere, explores how digitally networked communication technologies challenge traditional understandings of invention, emotion, and expertise. Pfister is a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Intercultural New Media Research and a member of the NCA-Forum. Learn more at www.damiensmithpfister.net.
Recent PUblications- Pfister, D.S. (2010). Introduction to special issue: Public argument/Digital media. Argumentation and Advocacy, 47 (3): 63-6.
- Pfister, D.S. (2011). The logos of the blogosphere: Flooding the zone, invention and attention in the Lott imbroglio. Argumentation and Advocacy 47 (4), 141-67.
- Pfister, D.S. (2011). Networked expertise in an era of many-to-many communication: On Wikipedia and invention. Social Epistemology 25 (3), 217-31.
- Pfister, D.S. and Soliz, J. (2011). Reconceptualizing intercultural communication in a networked society. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, forthcoming.
Teaching
Graduate
- COMM 911D: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
- COMM 852: Media and Culture
- COMM 912: Public Argument and Deliberation
Undergraduate
