Comments on: How Would T.S. Eliot View Social Media? http://nmlab.com/social-media/how-would-ts-eliot-view-social-media/ New Media Lab- Austin Business Class Social Media Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:58:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: mischa http://nmlab.com/social-media/how-would-ts-eliot-view-social-media/#comment-3322 mischa Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:22:34 +0000 http://www.nmlab.com/?p=1801#comment-3322 Yes, but what if, say, a blog is used as more of an online journal. A place to put down your thoughts which could be considered self-serving. A place where one does not care if there is an audience listening in? This was an interesting post, as was the comment above, something to think about. Thanks. Yes, but what if, say, a blog is used as more of an online journal. A place to put down your thoughts which could be considered self-serving. A place where one does not care if there is an audience listening in? This was an interesting post, as was the comment above, something to think about. Thanks.

]]> By: John Jones http://nmlab.com/social-media/how-would-ts-eliot-view-social-media/#comment-2690 John Jones Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:39:18 +0000 http://www.nmlab.com/?p=1801#comment-2690 Interesting post. The audience focus you note in Eliot's theory has a long history in western thought. Early Greek rhetoricians argued for the importance of considering a speech's audience; in fact, the first step in classical composition was to discover the available means of persuading the audience of one's argument. Later rhetoricians devoted large chunks of their texts to audience psychology and the techniques for convincing specific audiences of the speaker's trustworthiness and the validity of the speaker's claims. One traditional criticism of this kind of audience focus is that if the audience is "dumb" or vulgar, than the speaker must stoop to their level and communicate with them in dumb or vulgar ways. Of course, most authors want to avoid this kind of blatant pandering. The trick is to find the fine line between talking down to an audience and, as you note, talking over their heads. Thanks again for the post. Interesting post. The audience focus you note in Eliot’s theory has a long history in western thought. Early Greek rhetoricians argued for the importance of considering a speech’s audience; in fact, the first step in classical composition was to discover the available means of persuading the audience of one’s argument. Later rhetoricians devoted large chunks of their texts to audience psychology and the techniques for convincing specific audiences of the speaker’s trustworthiness and the validity of the speaker’s claims.

One traditional criticism of this kind of audience focus is that if the audience is “dumb” or vulgar, than the speaker must stoop to their level and communicate with them in dumb or vulgar ways. Of course, most authors want to avoid this kind of blatant pandering. The trick is to find the fine line between talking down to an audience and, as you note, talking over their heads.

Thanks again for the post.

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