Communicating Mobility and Technology - 9781472434722

Taylor & Francis

Communicating Mobility and TechnologyA Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation\nAuthor(s): Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472434722, 978-1472434722\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication\n\nResponding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term used to describe the kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies and their ramifications. Thus far, few studies in technical communication have explored the development of mobility technologies, the immense power that highly structured, environmentally significant systems have in the world, or the human-machine interactions that take place in such activities. Applying kinaesthetic rhetoric, a rh.