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“Entitled Opinions is a ball of lightning, crackling and crashing through centuries of rhetorical theory to match the breakneck, viral energy of our social media era. Caddie Alford’s ‘expansive and affirmative theory of opinions’ provides a crucial alternative to nostalgic calls for media literacy and demands to combat misinformation.” - Collin G. Brooke, Syracuse University “Entitled Opinions digs into the complexity of opinions, repurposing doxa as we’ve inherited it via the rhetorical tradition in the context of contemporary social media. The book unpacks doxa’s multiplicity and traces its rhythms, circulations, and transductions to reveal how doxa, endoxa, adoxa, and urdoxa operate collectively via superposition and polyrhythmic enfolding. Entitled Opinions is a well-written and well thought through book that everyone in rhetorical studies should read.” - Byron Hawk, professor of English at The University of South Carolina “. . .Alford. . . offers a panoramic poetics of doxa, a series of exploratory surveys that do justice to doxa’s vibrancy and sensuality – from its role as both the content and the form of our digital sociality, to the strange choric temporality with which it (and we) surge and recede. Pursuing this project through numerous social media narratives, platforms, and algorithms, Alford offers a version of a doxa that hums with a familiar yet enigmatic sense of connection.” - John Muckelbauer, associate professor of English, University of South Carolina

"Entitled Opinions is a ball of lightning, crackling and crashing through centuries of rhetorical theory to match the breakneck, viral energy of our social media era. Caddie Alford’s “expansive and affirmative theory of opinions” provides a crucial alternative to nostalgic calls for media literacy and demands to combat misinformation. It charts an indispensable path forward for rhetoric, digitality, and the resonances they’re generating.""—Collin G. Brooke, Syracuse University"

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Caddie Alford is assistant professor of writing and rhetoric in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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