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Persuasion And Privacy In Cyberspace: The Online Protests Over Lotus Market Place And The Clipper Chip
This fascinating book examines two examples of social action on the Internet-the organized protests against Lotus MarketPlace and the Clipper chip--in order to evaluate the impact of the net on our social and political life.
Paperback, 198 pages
Published
February 8th 1999
by Yale University Press
(first published July 21st 1997)
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In Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace (1997), Laura Gurak analyzes two online protests over privacy concerns about Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper Chip in the 1990s, taking the key terms of ethos and delivery as critical to her rhetorical analysis (5). These protests were made possible by the development of community ethos (57) and the flattening of hierarchies using email to "speak to thousands of others across distance and time" (67). Gurak shows how text, rather than a person, a...more
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