This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing. Increasingly, all of us must navigate networks of information, compose not just with computers but an array of
mobile devices, increase our technological literacy, and understand the changing dynamics of authoring, writing, reading, and publishing in a world of rich and complex texts. Given such changes, and given the diverse ways in which younger generations of college students are writing, communicating, and designing texts in multimediated, electronic environments, we need to consider how the very act of writing itself is undergoing potentially fundamental changes. These changes are being addressed increasingly by the emerging field of digital rhetoric, a field that
attempts to understand the rhetorical possibilities and affordances of writing, broadly defined, in a wide array of digital environments. Of interest to both researchers and students, this volume provides insights about the fields of rhetoric, writing, composition, digital media, literature, and multimodal studies.
Author(s): Jonathan Alexander Jacqueline Rhodes
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 490
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Digital Writing and Rhetoric?
Part I Cultural and Historical Contexts
1 Digital Writing Matters
2 A Tale of Two Tablets: Tracing Intersections of Materiality, the Body, and Practices of Communication
3 Multimodality Before and Beyond the Computer
4 English Composition as a Sonic Practice
5 Writing With a Soldering Iron: On the Art of Making Attention
Part II Beyond Writing
6 “With Fresh Eyes”: Notes toward the Impact of New Technologies on Composing
7 Devices and Desires: A Complicated Narrative of Mobile Writing and Device-Driven Ecologies
8 The Material, Embodied Practices of Composing with Technologies
9 Sonic Ecologies as a Path for Activism
10 Making and Remaking the Self through Digital Writing
Part III Being Rhetorical and Digital
11 Social Media as Multimodal Composing: Networked Rhetorics and Writing in a Digital Age
12 Ethos, Trust, and the Rhetoric of Digital Writing in Scientific and Technical Discourse
13 When Walls Can Talk: Animate Cities and Digital Rhetoric
14 #NODAPL: Distributed Rhetorical Praxis at Standing Rock
15 Digital Art + Activism: A Focus on QTPOC Digital Environments as Rhetorical Gestures of Coalition and Un/belonging
16 remixtherhetoric
17 Making Space for Non-Normative Expressions of Rhetoricity
Part IV Selves and Subjectivities
18 Posthumanism as Postscript
19 A Land-Based Digital Design Rhetoric
20 Technofeminist Storiographies: Talking Back to Gendered Rhetorics of Technology
21 Keeping Safe (and Queer)
22 The Invisible Life of Elliot Rodger: Social Media and the Documentation of a Tragedy
23 Writing with Robots and Other Curiosities of the Age of Machine Rhetorics
Part V Regulation and Control
24 Rhetoric, Copyright, Techne: The Regulation of Social Media Production and Distribution
25 Mediated Authority: The Effects of Technology on Authorship
26 Privacy as Cultural Choice and Resistance in the Age of Recommender Systems
27 Implications of Persuasive Computer Algorithms
28 Wielding Power and Doxing Data: How Personal Information Regulates and Controls our Online Selves
29 It’s Never About What It’s About: Audio-Visual Writing, Experiential-Learning Documentary, and the Forensic Art of Assessment
30 The Tests that Bind: Future Literacies, Common Core, and Educational Politics
Part VI Multimodality, Transmediation, and Participatory Cultures
31 Beyond Modality: Rethinking Transmedia Composition through a Queer/Trans Digital Rhetoric
32 Hip-Hop Rhetoric and Multimodal Digital Writing
33 Autoethnographic Blogart Exploring Postdigital Relationships between Digital and Hebraic Writing
34 Modes of Meaning, Modes of Engagement: Pragmatic Intersections of Adaptation Theory and Multimodal Composition
35 Virtual Postures
36 Participatory Media and the Lusory Turn: Paratextuality and Let’s Play
Part VII The Politics and Economics of Digital Writing and Rhetoric
37 Digital Media Ethics and Rhetoric
38 Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric
39 Exploitation, Alienation, and Liberation: Interpreting the Political Economy of Digital Writing
40 The Politics of the (Soundwriting) Interface
41 “Just Not the Future”: Taking on Digital Writing
Index
