ISBN:
9780415893251
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 199 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication 10
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Online authorship
;
Interactive multimedia
;
Hypertext systems
;
Web sites Design
;
Rhetoric Social aspects
;
Internet Social aspects
;
Communication Technological innovations
;
Communication and culture
;
Internetsprache
;
Rhetorik
;
Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
;
Internetliteratur
;
Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
;
Rhetorik
;
Internetsprache
;
Rhetorik
;
Internetliteratur
;
Rhetorik
Abstract:
"This project is a critical, rhetorical study of the digital text we call the Internet, in particular the style and figurative surface of its many pages as well as the conceptual, design patterns structuring the content of those same pages. Handa argues that as our lives become increasingly digital, we must consider rhetoric applicable to more than just printed text or to images. Digital analysis demands our acknowledgement of digital fusion, a true merging of analytic skills in many media and dimensions. CDs, DVDs, and an Internet increasingly capable of streaming audio and video prove that literacy today means more than it used to, namely the ability to understand information, however presented. Handa considers pedagogy, professional writing, hypertext theory, rhetorical studies, and composition studies, moving analysis beyond merely "using" the web towards "thinking" rhetorically about its construction and its impact on culture. This book shows how analyzing the web rhetorically helps us to understand the inescapable fact that culture is reflected through all media fused within the parameters of digital technology"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index
