Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics examines key moments in the early blogosphere to understand how bloggers use the affordances of digital media technology to engage in public argument. This is the first book to consider blogging from a rhetorical perspective, asking how the digital medium of communication changes the conditions for persuasion. Interpreting the blogosphere as part of the nascent networked public sphere, it registers fundamental changes in rhetorical practice and public deliberation.