
Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Writing and Communication
Stuart A. Selber(Editor)
University of South Carolina Press
Published on 30. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-61117-331-4 (ISBN)
Description
Recognising an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart A. Selber, Rhetorics and Technologies positions technology as an inevitable aspect of the rhetorical situation and as a potent force in writing and communication activities.
Taking a broad approach, this volume is not limited to discussion of particular technological systems (such as new media or wikis) or rhetorical contexts (such as invention or ethics). The essays instead offer a comprehensive treatment of the rhetoric-technology nexus. The book's first section considers the ways in which the social and material realities of using technology to support writing and communication activities have altered the borders and boundaries of rhetorical studies. The second section explores the discourse practices employed by users, designers, and scholars of technology when communicating in technological contexts. In the final section, projects and endeavours that illuminate the ways in which discourse activities can evolve to reflect emerging sociopolitical realties, technologies, and educational issues are examined.
The resulting text bridges past and future by offering new understandings of traditional canons of rhetoric--invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery--as they present themselves in technological contexts without discarding the rich history of the field before the advent of these technological innovations.
Taking a broad approach, this volume is not limited to discussion of particular technological systems (such as new media or wikis) or rhetorical contexts (such as invention or ethics). The essays instead offer a comprehensive treatment of the rhetoric-technology nexus. The book's first section considers the ways in which the social and material realities of using technology to support writing and communication activities have altered the borders and boundaries of rhetorical studies. The second section explores the discourse practices employed by users, designers, and scholars of technology when communicating in technological contexts. In the final section, projects and endeavours that illuminate the ways in which discourse activities can evolve to reflect emerging sociopolitical realties, technologies, and educational issues are examined.
The resulting text bridges past and future by offering new understandings of traditional canons of rhetoric--invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery--as they present themselves in technological contexts without discarding the rich history of the field before the advent of these technological innovations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
37 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61117-331-4 (9781611173314)
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Stuart A. Selber is an associate professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, USA. Selber is the author of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age and coeditor of Central Works in Technical Communication. He is a past president of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and a past president of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.