Anti-Instagrams When people need a sense of what success and social inclusion look like, in their immediate circle and in the concentric rings broadening out toward their aspirational horizons, they look at Instagram. It is where users can consume normativity. They can scroll until they have struck some sort of balance between anxiety and reassurance about where they fit into society, and then they can close the app.
“stomp and holler” for me means early clash. my roommate 16 years younger said “the lumineers” (?). my mom said the rolling stones lol. i think everybody gave up trying to identify with genre when stores gave up with a resigned “alternative” label. one alternative is as good as another.
I’m sure this is an obvious point, but one of the significant distinctions Carolyn Miller relies on in “Rhetorical Communities : The Cultural Basis of Genre” (a follow-up to “Genre as Social Action”) is that between taxonomic and relational communities. In her sense, taxonomic (i.e. statistical) communities are antithetical to the communities that constitute genres.
“stomp and holler” for me means early clash. my roommate 16 years younger said “the lumineers” (?). my mom said the rolling stones lol. i think everybody gave up trying to identify with genre when stores gave up with a resigned “alternative” label. one alternative is as good as another.
I’m sure this is an obvious point, but one of the significant distinctions Carolyn Miller relies on in “Rhetorical Communities : The Cultural Basis of Genre” (a follow-up to “Genre as Social Action”) is that between taxonomic and relational communities. In her sense, taxonomic (i.e. statistical) communities are antithetical to the communities that constitute genres.