Rhetorics Of The Digital Nonhumanities
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Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities
Redefining writing and communication in the digital cosmology In 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. Rhetoric 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 author’s arguments, even though they are unnerving, orient rhetorical practices to a more open, deliberate, and attentive awareness of what we are truly capable of and how we become capable. This volume moves beyond viewing digital media as an expression of human agency. Humans, formed into new collectives of user populations, must negotiate rather than command their way through digital media ecologies. Chapters centralize the most pressing questions: How do social media algorithms affect our judgment? How do smart phones shape our attention? These questions demand scholarly practice for attending the world around us. They explore attention and deliberation to embrace digital nonhuman composition. Once we see this brave new world, Reid argues, we are compelled to experiment.
Rhetorics of the Digital Nonhumanities
"Author Alex Reid combines new materialist theory and media theory to examine rhetorical practices in the context of digital technologies. This innovative method allows rhetoric and composition to reconceptualize the associations and interactions between humans and technologies in digital media ecologies"--
Digitalism
In this thesis, I argue that the text and the textual are inherently digital and, thus, have properties that are information theoretic in origin. From that premise, I use an interdisciplinary approach to construct a theory for the reading and deconstruction of digital works and their viewers, which I then use to form a method for the analysis, composition, and reading of texts "digitally." The first two chapters introduce the relation of digital philosophy and information theory to textual works, which leads into the third chapter's ontology of digital works and their audience. Chapters four introduces the power of simulacrum in digital works and the effects networked cultures have on identity. From there, chapter five explores visual interfaces in comics and economic interfaces in memetics, with "analog" examples. Chapter six applies the conclusions of chapter five to digital works and online cultures. Chapter seven synthesizes these seemingly divergent ideas into a cohesive method of "digital" reading, composition, and analysis. In the concluding chapter, I apply my "digital" rhetorical method to current political ideologies and propose an emergent shift towards a post-ideological mode of political thinking.