ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Digital Writing and Rhetoric?

part I|51 pages

Cultural and Historical Contexts

chapter 2|9 pages

A Tale of Two Tablets

Tracing Intersections of Materiality, the Body, and Practices of Communication

chapter 5|10 pages

Writing with a Soldering Iron

On the Art of Making Attention

part II|54 pages

Beyond Writing

chapter 6|12 pages

“With Fresh Eyes”

Notes toward the Impact of New Technologies on Composing

chapter 7|11 pages

Devices and Desires

A Complicated Narrative of Mobile Writing and Device-Driven Ecologies

part III|73 pages

Being Rhetorical and Digital

chapter 11|9 pages

Social Media as Multimodal Composing

Networked Rhetorics and Writing in a Digital Age

chapter 13|10 pages

When Walls Can Talk

Animate Cities and Digital Rhetoric

chapter 14|11 pages

#NODAPL

Distributed Rhetorical Praxis at Standing Rock

chapter 15|10 pages

Digital Art + Activism

A Focus on QTPOC Digital Environments as Rhetorical Gestures of Coalition and Un/belonging

chapter 16|12 pages

remixtherhetoric

part IV|69 pages

Selves and Subjectivities

chapter 18|10 pages

Posthumanism as Postscript

chapter 20|11 pages

Technofeminist Storiographies

Talking Back to Gendered Rhetorics of Technology

chapter 21|12 pages

Keeping Safe (and Queer)

chapter 22|11 pages

The Invisible Life of Elliot Rodger

Social Media and the Documentation of a Tragedy

part V|81 pages

Regulation and Control

chapter 24|10 pages

Rhetoric, Copyright, Techne

The Regulation of Social Media Production and Distribution

chapter 25|11 pages

Mediated Authority

The Effects of Technology on Authorship

chapter 28|14 pages

Wielding Power and Doxing Data

How Personal Information Regulates and Controls our Online Selves

chapter 29|11 pages

It’s Never about what it’s About

Audio-Visual Writing, Experiential-Learning Documentary, and the Forensic Art of Assessment

chapter 30|10 pages

The Tests that Bind

Future Literacies, Common Core, and Educational Politics

part VI|60 pages

Multimodality, Transmediation, and Participatory Cultures

chapter 31|11 pages

Beyond Modality

Rethinking Transmedia Composition through a Queer/Trans Digital Rhetoric

chapter 34|9 pages

Modes of Meaning, Modes of Engagement

Pragmatic Intersections of Adaptation Theory and Multimodal Composition

chapter 35|9 pages

Virtual Postures

chapter 36|10 pages

Participatory Media and the Lusory Turn

Paratextuality and Let’s Play

part VII|58 pages

The Politics and Economics of Digital Writing and Rhetoric

chapter 38|11 pages

Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric

chapter 39|10 pages

Exploitation, Alienation, and Liberation

Interpreting the Political Economy of Digital Writing

chapter 41|12 pages

“Just Not the Future”

Taking on Digital Writing