Media Argumentation

Dialectic, Persuasion and Rhetoric

Bibliographic Data

ID23799581
AuthorsD Walton (0000-0003-0728-1370, University of Windsor, corresponding author), Douglas N Walton
Year2007
Publication date2007-09-24
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMedia Argumentation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511619311
OpenAlexW4238470918
Open LibraryOL34475550M
ISBN9780511619311
LanguageEN
Citations received38

Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives, showing the intersection of media sources with argumentation theory, informal logic, computational theory, and theories of persuasion. Using a variety of case studies that represent arguments that typically occur in the mass media, Douglas Walton demonstrates how tools recently developed in argumentation theory can be usefully applied to the identification, analysis, and evaluation of media arguments. He draws upon the most recent developments in artificial intelligence, including dialogical theories of argument, which he developed, as well as speech act theory. Each chapter presents solutions to problems central to understanding, analyzing, and criticizing media argumentation.

Action (physics) · Argument (complex analysis) · Argumentation theory · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Identification (biology) · Informal logic · Mass media · Persuasion · Political communication · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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