Rhetorical Machines - Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

About the author

John Jones is associate professor and the director of digital media studies in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His scholarship has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

Lavinia Hirsu is lecturer of applied linguistics, composition, and English as a foreign language at the University of Glasgow. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition and The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.

Summary

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lavinia Hirsu (Editor), John Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780817359546
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5954-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 495 g
• Illustrations: 15 black & white figures, 13 tables
• Series: Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr; Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries