ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a digital cultural rhetoric framework for rhetoric and composition studies. It provides a working definition for digital cultural rhetorics, outlines some foundational values of digital cultural rhetorics scholarship, and demonstrates what those values look like in practice. Digital rhetoric is the digital negotiation of information—and its historical, social, economic, and political contexts and influences—to affect change. Many digital cultural rhetorics scholars have responded with research methodologies informed by complex models and logics of technological development from underrepresented and/or underserved communities of digital practice. Digital cultural rhetorics scholars are also invested in studying how bodies matter to teaching writing with technology. Digital cultural rhetorics scholarship is typically situated in specific cultures with diverse rhetorical skill, communities of practice, technological expertise, and capacity for social change. Effectively queering neurotypical representations of autism, disability rhetorics scholars also contribute to intersectional mind-body politics with and through technology.
