1st Edition
Influence and Influencer as Keywords in the Digital Humanities
Introduction: Century of the Selfie
1. A Partial Genealogy of Influence
2. The Long Twentieth Century of Influence
3. Uneasiness About So-Called “Great Men”
4. Irreality TV: A Brief Pre-History of the Social Media Influencer
5. Spotify, YouTube, X: Influence Network 2020/2030
6. Authenticity, Charisma, and Narcissism
7. The Spiralling Digitalness of Narcibitionism
8. A Mediastronomy of Spotted Stars: The MAGA Trump-stellation and its Implications
9. The Online Left and its Diss Content (and the Quest for the Liberal Joe Rogan)
10. Afterthoughts: Bot Armies Flying Simulations in the Clouds
Biography
Daniel Adleman is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto’s Innis College, where he teaches Digital Rhetoric, A Brief History of Persuasion, and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine. His work has been published in Cultural Politics, Cultural Studies, Canadian Review of American Studies, and elsewhere. He is the co-author of Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy’s Other Scenes.
