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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
Cultural and Historical Contexts
chapter 2|9 pages
A Tale of Two Tablets
part II|54 pages
Beyond Writing
chapter 7|11 pages
Devices and Desires
part III|73 pages
Being Rhetorical and Digital
chapter 11|9 pages
Social Media as Multimodal Composing
chapter 15|10 pages
Digital Art + Activism
part IV|69 pages
Selves and Subjectivities
chapter 22|11 pages
The Invisible Life of Elliot Rodger
part V|81 pages
Regulation and Control
chapter 24|10 pages
Rhetoric, Copyright, Techne
chapter 28|14 pages
Wielding Power and Doxing Data
chapter 29|11 pages
It’s Never about what it’s About
part VI|60 pages
Multimodality, Transmediation, and Participatory Cultures
chapter 31|11 pages
Beyond Modality
chapter 34|9 pages
Modes of Meaning, Modes of Engagement
part VII|58 pages
The Politics and Economics of Digital Writing and Rhetoric