Series Editors: Damien Smith Pfister, Casey Boyle, and Michele Kennerly
Series Description
Rhetoric + Digitality consists of scholarship that aims to catalyze how we understand fundamental principles and practices of rhetoric under the condition of living with digital technology. Digitality encompasses screens and code but also the subjectivities resultant from networks, information, and interactions that are increasingly digitized. Currently, some of our most pressing cultural and political problems fundamentally implicate the digital and the rhetorical: the spread of computational propaganda; the results of biases built into algorithmic processes; the harassment of and hostility toward historically marginalized identities across platforms; the political economy of communication networks; and digital alterations to labor markets that complicate traditional forms of collective action. Digitality constitutes less a break from prior forms of media and infrastructure than an intensification of qualities rhetoric continually has worked with—or against.
Rhetoric + Digitality seeks to energize rhetorical studies by providing a space for thinking about digitality rhetorically. The series welcomes:
- Intensive focus on theory and theory building at the intersection of rhetorical studies and digital media studies;
- Engagement with broader questions animating the theoretical humanities (for example: agency, affect, infrastructures, cultural techniques);
- Investigations of figures, moments, and technologies that constitute digital media’s rich and varied history and explorations of more contemporary issues related to digitality (examples of which will extend from digital devices to the infrastructural communication networks that enable digitality);
- Varied or hybrid humanistic methods, including historical-critical, archival, intersectional, ethnographic, and computational.
Digitality has become a foremost condition for and context of social life today, and rhetoricians are uniquely positioned to come to terms with how new forms of mediation change the conditions for belief and action. Rhetoric + Digitality provides a home for the best work emerging at the intersection of rhetorical studies and digital media studies.
Series Books
Editorial Advisory Board
- Angela J. Aguayo
- André Brock
- James J. Brown Jr.
- E. Johanna Hartelius
- Byron Hawk
- Robert Glenn Howard
- Jiyeon Kang
- Krista Kennedy
- Bonnie Mak
- Jeff Rice
- Catherine Knight Steele
- M. Remi Yergeau