The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric (Routledge Handbooks in Communication Studies)

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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Digital Writing and Rhetoric? Part I Cultural and Historical Contexts 1 Digital Writing Matters 2 A Tale of Two Tablets: Tracing Intersections of Materiality, the Body, and Practices of Communication 3 Multimodality Before and Beyond the Computer 4 English Composition as a Sonic Practice 5 Writing With a Soldering Iron: On the Art of Making Attention Part II Beyond Writing 6 “With Fresh Eyes”: Notes toward the Impact of New Technologies on Composing 7 Devices and Desires: A Complicated Narrative of Mobile Writing and Device-Driven Ecologies 8 The Material, Embodied Practices of Composing with Technologies 9 Sonic Ecologies as a Path for Activism 10 Making and Remaking the Self through Digital Writing Part III Being Rhetorical and Digital 11 Social Media as Multimodal Composing: Networked Rhetorics and Writing in a Digital Age 12 Ethos, Trust, and the Rhetoric of Digital Writing in Scientific and Technical Discourse 13 When Walls Can Talk: Animate Cities and Digital Rhetoric 14 #NODAPL: Distributed Rhetorical Praxis at Standing Rock 15 Digital Art + Activism: A Focus on QTPOC Digital Environments as Rhetorical Gestures of Coalition and Un/belonging 16 remixtherhetoric 17 Making Space for Non-Normative Expressions of Rhetoricity Part IV Selves and Subjectivities 18 Posthumanism as Postscript 19 A Land-Based Digital Design Rhetoric 20 Technofeminist Storiographies: Talking Back to Gendered Rhetorics of Technology 21 Keeping Safe (and Queer) 22 The Invisible Life of Elliot Rodger: Social Media and the Documentation of a Tragedy 23 Writing with Robots and Other Curiosities of the Age of Machine Rhetorics Part V Regulation and Control 24 Rhetoric, Copyright, Techne: The Regulation of Social Media Production and Distribution 25 Mediated Authority: The Effects of Technology on Authorship 26 Privacy as Cultural Choice and Resistance in the Age of Recommender Systems 27 Implications of Persuasive Computer Algorithms 28 Wielding Power and Doxing Data: How Personal Information Regulates and Controls our Online Selves 29 It’s Never About What It’s About: Audio-Visual Writing, Experiential-Learning Documentary, and the Forensic Art of Assessment 30 The Tests that Bind: Future Literacies, Common Core, and Educational Politics Part VI Multimodality, Transmediation, and Participatory Cultures 31 Beyond Modality: Rethinking Transmedia Composition through a Queer/Trans Digital Rhetoric 32 Hip-Hop Rhetoric and Multimodal Digital Writing 33 Autoethnographic Blogart Exploring Postdigital Relationships between Digital and Hebraic Writing 34 Modes of Meaning, Modes of Engagement: Pragmatic Intersections of Adaptation Theory and Multimodal Composition 35 Virtual Postures 36 Participatory Media and the Lusory Turn: Paratextuality and Let’s Play Part VII The Politics and Economics of Digital Writing and Rhetoric 37 Digital Media Ethics and Rhetoric 38 Toward a Digital Cultural Rhetoric 39 Exploitation, Alienation, and Liberation: Interpreting the Political Economy of Digital Writing 40 The Politics of the (Soundwriting) Interface 41 “Just Not the Future”: Taking on Digital Writing Index This companion brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the written landscape.