Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age (Lynn Worsham, Gary A. Olson) |
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Title: Plugged In
Sub-title: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age
Editor(s): Lynn Worsham, Gary A. Olson
Publish Date: March 2008
Format: Cloth
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| This is a collection of ten essays examining the role of technology in redefining rhetoric, writing, and "the human." First appearing in JAC, these provocative and cutting-edge works explore a range of subjects of keen interest to teachers and scholars of rhetoric and composition.
Contents: Foreword, Cynthia Selfe. Introduction, Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson. CYBERBODIES IN A POSTHUMAN AGE. Cybernetics, Ethos, and Ethics: The Plight of the Bread-and-Butter-Fly, Kristie S. Fleckenstein. Screening (In)Formation: Bodies and Writing in Network Culture, Jennifer L. Bay. Our Cyberbodies, Ourselves: Conceptual Grounds for Teaching Commodities to Write, Stanley D. Harrison. RHETORIC AND TEACHING IN A DIGITAL AGE. The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric, David M. Sherian, Jim Rodolfo, and Anthony J. Michel. The Political Economy of Computers and Composition: "Democracy Hope" in the Era of Globalization, M.J. Braun. Circuitous Subjects in Their Time Maps, James J. Sosnoski and Ken S. McAllister. Toward a Rhetoric of Network (Media) Culture: Notes on Polarities and Potentiality, Bryon Hawk. NETWORK CULTURE. Grrrl Zine Networks: Re-Composing Spaces of Authority, Gender and Culture, Michelle Comstock. Cyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shootings, Maya Socolovsky. Network Theory and Life on the Internet, John Johnston. Contributors. Index. |
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