176: Dr. Caddie Alford (Keystone Perspectives)

Keywords: Doxa, Opinions, Digital Rhetoric, Social Media, Internet Culture. Caddie Alford is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of the book Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality (2024). She is a digital rhetoric expert who researches emergent forms of persuasion, sociality, and the changing state of information vis-à-vis social media platforms and technological developments and ideologies. Some of her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech; Rhetoric Review; and Enculturation. She served as the book review editor for the journal Enculturation for three years. She is currently co-editing a rhetorical studies collection on “post-truth” rhetorics. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.