Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities by Alex Reid PAPERBACK 9780809338337

Southern Illinois University Press

Rhetorics of the Digital NonhumanitiesAuthor(s): Alex Reid\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press, United States\nImprint: Southern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780809338337, 978-0809338337\nSynopsis\nRedefining writing and communication in the digital cosmology\n\nIn Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities, author Alex Reid fashions a potent vocabulary from new materialist theory, media theory, postmodern theory, and digital rhetoric to rethink the connections between humans and digital media. Addressed are the familiar concerns that scholars have with digital culture: how technologies affect attention spans, how digital media are used to compose, and how digital rhetoric is taught.\n\nRhetoric is now regularly defined as including human and nonhuman actors. Each actor influences the thoughts, arguments, and sentiments that journey through systems of processors, algorithms, humans, air, and metal. The authors arguments, even though they are unnervin.