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SSRU Podcast Episode 2: Facebook and Civic Discourse
In this second episode of my experimentation with orality, I consider the relationship between social media and public discourse. Facebook could do one easy thing in terms of standards that might go a long way toward stopping the infection that is spreading pretty quickly into public discourse. Let me know what you think of this…
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When we call for “National Debate,” What is it We Want?
Whenever there’s a controversy – gun violence, racism, sexism, or any of the things that occur in the United States with frightening regularity – there is always the call for vibrant national debate on the issues. I have always wondered what journalists mean when they call for “national debate” on a particular issue. Very much…
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Playing With Substack
I set up a substack which I think will become this blog, or a copy of this blog over time. I think keeping this space alive is important and good for my practices, but probably not the easiest or best way for audiences to do so. It might be a bit easier to get the…
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Planning a Course in Legal Argumentation
In planning a course, my mind tends to wander. I think about what it would be like to be in that course, and what it would look like as a failure and as a success. What do students say about it? What can they say? What options do they have after the course in terms…
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Rhetoric, Oratory, Argumentation, and Debate
Welcome to Sophistic Disputation by me, Steve Llano. Teacher and Professor of Rhetoric, Debate, Argument and Oratory. Love words, love speeches, and love talking about what we can learn from debate.\n\nhttps://ko-fi.com/stevellano Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
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Moved!
Moving is one of these things that is so disruptive it’s hard to consider it as anything other than disruption itself. There is no way – at least for me – to put things where they go since there is no where they go when you are in a new spot. Luckily I have a…
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