Technologies of wonder : rhetorical practice in a digital world / Susan H. Delagrange

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delagrange, Susan H, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Applied Sciences.

Engineering.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Interactive multimedia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 199 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Utah State University Press/ Computers and Composition Digital Press 2011

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2011].

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Text file

Summary:

Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World considers the theoretical and pedagogical implications of designing academic scholarship in interactive digital media, and proposes renewed emphasis on embodied visual rhetoric and on the canon of arrangement as an active visual practice. This project uses the concept of the Wunderkammer to argue for techné and wonder as guiding principles for a revitalized visual canon of arrangement and as new models of invention and intervention in multimodal scholarly production. Technologies of Wonder also presents examples of how this rhetoric of inquiry can be applied to multimodal projects in the classroom. New digital technologies offer viable alternatives to linear, less embodied traditions of academic scholarship. Emerging at a time when academic presses are under considerable economic pressure, Technologies of Wonder also serves as a model for how rigorous intellectual projects can be published and disseminated in less costly, more accessible formats.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780874218718 (eBook)