The 18th-century elocution movement and Facebook: reading emotion before and after the subject

• Published in: Media, culture & society Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 762 - 776
• Main Author: Binder, Jeffrey M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: 18th century; Anxiety; Attitudes; Emotional responses; Emotions; Ethics; Historical development; Language; Mass media effects; Oral reading; Personhood; Popularity; Primacy; Self concept; Social media; Social networks; Spoken language; Subjectivity; Teaching; media history; emotion; subjectivity; elocution; reading; rhetoric; social media; literacy and orality

The rise of social media has recently inspired a renewed debate about the decentering of the subject. Some scholars have responded to Facebook’s seemingly intrusive influence over people’s emotions by reviving humanistic notions of the autonomous subject, while others have continued to insist on the...