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.
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