Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Writing and Communication
Edited by Stuart A. Selber
Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen
contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in
successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing
and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart A. Selber, Rhetorics and Technologies
positions technology as an inevitable aspect of the rhetorical situation and as a potent
force in writing and communication activities.
Taking a broad approach, this volume is not limited to discussion of particular technological systems (such as new media or wikis) or rhetorical contexts (such as invention or ethics). The essays instead offer a comprehensive treatment of the rhetorictechnology nexus. The book’s first section considers the ways in which the social and
material realities of using technology to support writing and communication activities
have altered the borders and boundaries of rhetorical studies. The second section
explores the discourse practices employed by users, designers, and scholars of technology when communicating in technological contexts. In the final section, projects and
endeavors that illuminate the ways in which discourse activities can evolve to reflect
emerging sociopolitical realties, technologies, and educational issues are examined.
The resulting text bridges past and future by offering new understandings of traditional canons of rhetoric—invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery—as
they present themselves in technological contexts without discarding the rich history
of the field before the advent of these technological innovations.
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication • Thomas W. Benson, series editor
Stuart A. Selber is an associate
professor of English at Pennsylvania
State University. Selber is the author
of Multiliteracies for a Digital Age and
coeditor of Central Works in Technical
Communication. He is a past president
of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and a past president of
the Council for Programs in Technical
and Scientific Communication.
April 2010, 232 pages, 37 illus.
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