“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 d...
“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 fi...
“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 wit...
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...
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 assembla...
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 ab...
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 c...
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 whe...
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 doctor...
Misunderstanding the Assignment
This is a little bit of post-semester light reading. The book is an in-depth look into the first four weeks of a FYC course at a Missouri State University. Th...