1st Edition

Theorizing Digital Rhetoric

Edited By Aaron Hess, Amber Davisson Copyright 2018
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Theorizing Digital Rhetoric takes up the intersection of rhetorical theory and digital technology to explore the ways in which rhetoric is challenged by new technologies and how rhetorical theory can illuminate discursive expression in digital contexts. The volume combines complex rhetorical theory with personal anecdotes about the use of technologies to create a larger philosophical and... Read more
 

Editors’ Preface

Aaron Hess, Arizona State University

Amber Davisson, Keene State College

1: The Speaking Machine: Surveying the Field of Digital Rhetoric

Aaron Hess, Arizona State University

Section 1: Building Identity Online

2: Fluidity in a Digital World

Ashley Hink, Xavier University

3: Gazing and Swiping Together: Identification in Visually Driven Social Media

Hillary Jones, University of California Fresno

4: Reviving identity politics: "Asian American" strategic essentialism in the digital age

Vincent N. Pham, California State University-San Marcos

5: I am what I play and I play what I am: Feminine Identity Construction and the Casual Games Market

Shira Chess, The University of Georgia

6: Schema, Stigma, and Selfies: Navigating Digital Rhetorics of Analog Gender

Angela Leone, Northwestern University

Amber Davisson, Keene State College

Section 2: Automated and In-Human Rhetorics

7: Digital Information and Binary Rhetoric

David J. Gunkel, Northern Illinois University (USA)

8: Discursive, Material, and Digital Entanglements in the Internet of Things

James P. Zappen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

9: The Rhetorical Agency of Algorithms

Jessica Reyman, University of Northern Illinois

10: The New Data: Argumentation from, with, and of Data

Candice Lanius, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Gaines Hubbell, University of Alabama-Huntsville

11: Where is the Body in Digital Rhetoric?

Brett Lunceford, Independent Scholar

Section 3: Digital Systems and Networks

12: Assemblage, the Minor, and the Clickable World

J. Macgregor Wise, Arizona State University

13: The Terms of Technoliberalism

Damien Pfister, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

14: Rhetoricity and Textuality

Jeremy David Johnson, Penn State University

15: Sharing/Shaping Community: Virality’s Constitutive Rhetoric

Jessica Sheffield, University of Alabama

16: Recommendational Rhetoric

Chris Ingraham, North Carolina State University

17: Rhetorical Agency and Education in the Digital Age

Cindy Koenig Richards, Willamette University

Biography

Aaron Hess is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Arizona State University. He is the co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric In Situ (Lexington, 2015). His research follows two primary avenues: the participatory elements of rhetorical advocacy and digital rhetorical expression. His work can be found in a variety of scholarly journals, including the International Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, New Media and Society, and Media, Culture and Society.

Amber Davisson is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Keene State College. She is the author of Lady Gaga and the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (McFarland, 2013) and the co-editor of Controversies in Digital Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2016). Her interdisciplinary scholarship on identity, politics, and digital technology has appeared in journals such as Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Transformative Works and Culture, Journal of Media and Digital Literacy, Journal of Visual Literacy, and American Communication Journal.