Communicating Technology and Mobility - A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation

Zusatztext "Technical communicators, engineers, and designers in the automotive industry, as well as researchers with expertise and interest in actor-network theory (ANT), will find Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation a valuable book. [It] offers a unique contribution to scholarly work on professional communication in the transportation industry." --Aiee Kendall Roundtree, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 60(1), 2017 Informationen zum Autor Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder is Assistant Professor of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Writing in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, USA. Klappentext Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder applies kinaesthetic rhetoric to automobility, or the specific kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies and their ramifications. He looks at electric taxi cabs from the turn of the century to modern day, open-source vehicle projects, and a large case study of an autonomous, electric pod car network that ultimately failed. Zusammenfassung Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies and a warming climate, this title develops a kinaesthetic rhetoric for the study of automobility and the specific kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Persuasive Transportation 2. Rhetoric and Movement 3. Design 4. Interfaces 5. Logistics 6. Navigation 7. EPTV Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut (Oregon State University Pflugfelder
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2016
• EAN: 9781472434722
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3472-2
• Series: Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture; Routledge Studies in Technical; Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture; Routledge Studies in Technical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; English, Writing and editing guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Technical Writing