“visual arrangement as inquiry”

Delagrange refigures the rhetorical canon of arrangement as “an invention strategy in twenty-first century interactive digital media” (107). To refigure arrangment, she draws from the concept of Wunderkammer, a collection of objects that “uses the arrangement and re-arrangement of objects to create new knowledge” (107). Through the concept of Wunderkammer, Delagrange images arrangement as “a material, embodied… Continue reading “visual arrangement as inquiry”

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“looking forward to look back”

Like Porter and Queen, Banks resists the idea that the digital dislocates the rhetor from their material realities, Banks discusses the digital divide and the discourse surrounding the digital divide: “African Americans occupy a Discursive Divide far broader than the digital one that we’ve all heard about during the last few years” (192). More than just… Continue reading “looking forward to look back”

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“recovering delivery for digital rhetoric”

Porter develops a theory of delivery of digital communication. He images his theory as a kind of techne, abstract and procedural knowledges, made possible by five topoi. Taken together, Porter imagines his five topoi as function to “aid invention as well as the design and evaluation of writing” (p. 211). body/identity — like Queen and… Continue reading “recovering delivery for digital rhetoric”

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“transnational feminist rhetorics in a digital world”

Queen discusses the digital circulations of representations, tracing “how women’s self-representations are transformed through their circulation within global field of rhetorical action in ways that often ‘fix’ these women within neoliberal frameworks of ‘democracy’ and ‘women’s rights,’ thus erasing the multiple ways in which women across the globe use Internet technology to create and claim… Continue reading “transnational feminist rhetorics in a digital world”

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lingua fracta

Citing the development of the rhetorical canon in an age of orality and a transformation of the rhetorical canon in the age of print, Brooke makes the case that rhetoric is “intrinsically technological” (29). And just as refiguring the canons for an age of print enriched the field’s understanding of writing, refiguring the canons for… Continue reading lingua fracta

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assemblage

I’m currently teaching a class on Medium and Design, and one assignment I have developed is based on Johnson-Eilola and Selber’s concept of assemblage. I developed the assignment based on a presentation I gave at Computers and Writing. In the presentation, I talked about the ways that students define genres in relation to platforms and… Continue reading assemblage

Semiotic Resources

So far, in my first semester as a graduate student, I have been in strange worlds and familiar territories with unmapped quadrants. I have a little knowledge about networks and consequences of the network for users, viewers, and society. I know some things about the composition paradigms. I am familiar with rhetorical concerns in the… Continue reading Semiotic Resources

A Counter-History of Composition

The primary purpose of Hawk’s book is to revive Vitalism as concept, category, and method in composition studies. He cites the continued use of old maps constructed by Berlin and Young — chiefly Berlin — as received categories and methods that are now more of an impediment to the field than a useful starting place… Continue reading A Counter-History of Composition

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Acting with Technology

This book is a nice intersection of two areas: activity theory and human computer interaction. Because of the focus of the book, it is intended to have some wheels. The authors are establishing a question: What can we learn about designing software from thinking about HCI? The answer would yield a different kind of technological… Continue reading Acting with Technology

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Academically Adrift

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roska   I am a greenhorn, greener than most I guess. I will begin my doctoral work in rhetoric and composition this fall. I have done M.A. work in rhet/comp and have taught for a couple of years at a couple of institutions… Continue reading Academically Adrift

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