Humanities MLA

What does rhetoric tell us about our current world?

Answer 2 of the following questions. Please make reference to both Downs (2017) and BBC (2018) attached. Also please see the rubric.

1) What’s the difference in the way persuasion worked in ancient times and now? What accounts for those differences?

2) How do ideas move from one person to another? What role does rhetoric plan in spreading ideas?

3) What role to chat bots, aggregators, algorithmic recommendations play in rhetoric now?

4) Why do memes matter?