Book announcement: Theorizing Digital Rhetoric

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that our edited volume, Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, has been published by Routledge. More information about the book can be found at https://www.routledge.com/Theorizing-Digital-Rhetoric/Hess-Davisson/p/book/9781138702394

Edited by Aaron Hess, Arizona State University, and Amber Davisson, Keene State College

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 rhetorical account of how theorists approach the examinations of new and future digital technologies. This collection of essays emphasizes the ways that digital technology intrudes upon rhetorical theory and how readers can be everyday rhetorical critics within an era of ever-increasing use of digital technology.

Contents

1.      Introduction: Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, Aaron Hess

SECTION I: PHILOSOPHICAL AND RHETORICAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

2.      Critique of Digital Reason, David Gunkel

3.      The Terms of Technoliberalism, Damien Pfister

4.      Rhetorical Affects in Digital Media, Jay Brower

5.      Digital Rhetoric and the Internet of Things, James P. Zappen

6.      Towards a Minor Assemblage: An Introduction to the Clickable World, J. Macgregor Wise

SECTION II: DIGITAL INTRUSIONS IN RHETORICAL THEORY

7.      From coercion to community building: Technological affordances as rhetorical forms, Amber Davisson and Angela Leone

8.      Fluidity in a Digital World: Choice, Communities, and Public Values, Ashley Hinck

9.      The Rhetorical Agency of Algorithms, Jessica Reyman

10.   The New Data: Argumentation amidst, on, with, and in Data, Candice Lanius and Gaines S. Hubbell

11.   Where is the Body in Digital Rhetoric? Brett Lunceford

12.   Reviving identity politics: Strategic essentialism, identity politics, and the potential for cross-racial vernacular discourse in the digital age, Vincent Pham

SECTION III: BEING RHETORICAL CRITICS IN OUR DIGITAL LIVES

13.   Toward a Digital Methodology for Ideographic Criticism: A Case Study of ‘Equality’, Michelle Gibbons and David Seitz

14.   Hashtags and Attention through the Tetrad: The Rhetorical Circulation of #ALSIceBucketChallenge, Jennifer Reinwald

15.   Ethics, Agency, and Power: Toward an Algorithmic Rhetoric, Jeremy David Johnson

16.   Pinning, Gazing, and Swiping Together: Identification in Visually Driven Social Media, Hillary A. Jones

17.   I am what I play and I play what I am: Constitutive Rhetoric and the Casual Games Market, Shira Chess

18.   Afterword: Digital Rhetoric at a Later Time, Brian L. Ott

Aaron Hess, Arizona State University

Amber Davisson, Keene State College