Communicating Mobility and Technology - A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation (Paperback)

Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication Responding 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 rhetoric that is sensitive to and developed from the mobile, material context of these technologies, Pflugfelder looks at transportation projects such as electric taxi cabs from the turn of the century to modern day, open-source vehicle projects, and a large case study of an autonomous, electric pod car network that ultimately failed. Kinaesthetic rhetoric illuminates how mobility technologies have always been persuasive wherever and whenever linguistic symbol systems and material interactions enroll us, often unconsciously, into regimes of movement and ways of experiencing the world. As Pflugfelder shows, mobility technologies involve networks of sustained arguments that are as durable as the bonds between the actors in their networks.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2017
Authors:	Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	178
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-31975-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Automotive technology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-31975-9
Barcode:	9781138319752

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