My Virtual Body: Duke Palmer's anti-death penalty rhetoric at MySpace

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Abstract

This essay investigates the use of blogs by America’s death row; looking at the evolution of anti-death penalty discourse into the focus on the inmates and the rhetorical significance of the virtual presence created through death row blogs. Blogging metaphorically extracts the inmates from death row and creates for them an instant community. Blogging enhances the scope of anti-death penalty rhetoric.

Author

• Anita Sells, Western Illinois University