Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
Reprogrammable Rhetoric offers new inroads for rhetoric and composition scholars’ past and present engagements with critical making. Moving beyond arguments of inclusion and justifications for scholarly legitimacy and past historicizations of the “material turn” in the field, this volume explores what these practices look like with both a theoretical and hands-on “how-to” approach. Chapters function not only as critical illustrations or arguments for the use of reprogrammable circuits but also as pedagogical instructions that enable readers to easily use or modify these compositions for their own ends.

This collection offers nuanced theoretical perspectives on material and cultural rhetorics alongside practical tutorials for students, researchers, and teachers to explore critical making across traditional areas such as wearable sensors, Arduinos, Twitter bots, multimodal pedagogy, Raspberry Pis, and paper circuitry, as well as underexplored areas like play, gaming, text mining, bots, and electronic monuments.

Designed to be taught in upper division undergraduate and graduate classrooms, these tutorials will benefit non-expert and expert critical makers alike. All contributed codes and scripts are also available on Utah State University Press’s companion website to encourage downloading, cloning, and repurposing.
 
 
Contributors: Aaron Beveridge, Kendall Gerdes, Kellie Gray, Matthew Halm, Steven Hammer, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, John Jones, M.Bawar Khan, Bree McGregor, Sean Morey, Ryan Omizo, Andrew Pilsch, David Rieder, David Sheridan, Wendi Sierra, Nicholas Van Horn
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Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
Reprogrammable Rhetoric offers new inroads for rhetoric and composition scholars’ past and present engagements with critical making. Moving beyond arguments of inclusion and justifications for scholarly legitimacy and past historicizations of the “material turn” in the field, this volume explores what these practices look like with both a theoretical and hands-on “how-to” approach. Chapters function not only as critical illustrations or arguments for the use of reprogrammable circuits but also as pedagogical instructions that enable readers to easily use or modify these compositions for their own ends.

This collection offers nuanced theoretical perspectives on material and cultural rhetorics alongside practical tutorials for students, researchers, and teachers to explore critical making across traditional areas such as wearable sensors, Arduinos, Twitter bots, multimodal pedagogy, Raspberry Pis, and paper circuitry, as well as underexplored areas like play, gaming, text mining, bots, and electronic monuments.

Designed to be taught in upper division undergraduate and graduate classrooms, these tutorials will benefit non-expert and expert critical makers alike. All contributed codes and scripts are also available on Utah State University Press’s companion website to encourage downloading, cloning, and repurposing.
 
 
Contributors: Aaron Beveridge, Kendall Gerdes, Kellie Gray, Matthew Halm, Steven Hammer, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, John Jones, M.Bawar Khan, Bree McGregor, Sean Morey, Ryan Omizo, Andrew Pilsch, David Rieder, David Sheridan, Wendi Sierra, Nicholas Van Horn
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Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

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Reprogrammable Rhetoric offers new inroads for rhetoric and composition scholars’ past and present engagements with critical making. Moving beyond arguments of inclusion and justifications for scholarly legitimacy and past historicizations of the “material turn” in the field, this volume explores what these practices look like with both a theoretical and hands-on “how-to” approach. Chapters function not only as critical illustrations or arguments for the use of reprogrammable circuits but also as pedagogical instructions that enable readers to easily use or modify these compositions for their own ends.

This collection offers nuanced theoretical perspectives on material and cultural rhetorics alongside practical tutorials for students, researchers, and teachers to explore critical making across traditional areas such as wearable sensors, Arduinos, Twitter bots, multimodal pedagogy, Raspberry Pis, and paper circuitry, as well as underexplored areas like play, gaming, text mining, bots, and electronic monuments.

Designed to be taught in upper division undergraduate and graduate classrooms, these tutorials will benefit non-expert and expert critical makers alike. All contributed codes and scripts are also available on Utah State University Press’s companion website to encourage downloading, cloning, and repurposing.
 
 
Contributors: Aaron Beveridge, Kendall Gerdes, Kellie Gray, Matthew Halm, Steven Hammer, Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq, John Jones, M.Bawar Khan, Bree McGregor, Sean Morey, Ryan Omizo, Andrew Pilsch, David Rieder, David Sheridan, Wendi Sierra, Nicholas Van Horn

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781646422586
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Publication date: 09/01/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Michael J. Faris is associate professor in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program in the English department at Texas Tech University, where he coadministered the First-Year Writing Program (2018–2021). His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Kairos, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Composition Forum. He is coeditor of Soundwriting Pedagogies.


Steve Holmes is associate professor in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric Program at Texas Tech University, where he directs the BA in technical communication. He is the author of Procedural Habits: The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice and coauthor of Rhetoric, Technology and the Virtues.

 

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction | Michael J. Faris and Steve Holmes

Section 1: Framing Critical Making

1. Noise Composition: A Story of Co-Design and Relationality | Steven Hammer

2. The Circulation of Touch: Very Simple Machines for Creating Tactile Textual Experiences | David M. Sheridan

Section 2: Text Mining as Critical Making

3. The Woman Who Tricked the Machine: Challenging the Neutrality of Defaults and Building Coalitions for Marginalized Scholars | Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

4. Critical Text Mining: Ethical Paradigms for Determining Emoji Frequency in #blacklivesmatter | Kellie M. Gray and Steve Holmes

5. Reprogramming the Faciloscope: A Software Development Story | Ryan Omizo

6. Big Data, Tiny Computers: Making Data-Driven Methods Accessible with a Raspberry Pi | Aaron Beveridge and Nicholas Van Horn

Section 3: Eversion and Critical Making

7. Touch-Interactive Rhetorics: Exploring Our “First Sense” as a Rhetorical Act of Eversion | Matthew Halm and David M. Rieder

8. What the Computer Said: Poetic Machines, Rhetorical Adjuncts, and the Circuits of Eloquence | Andrew Pilsch

9. Actionable Monuments: Making Critical Augmented Reality Activism | Sean Morey and M.Bawar Khan

Section 4: Critical Play as Critical Making

10. Reparative Making: Re-Orienting Critical Making for Queer Worldmaking | Michael J. Faris

11. Developing A Strong Fire: Bridging Critical Making, Participatory Design, and Game Design | Wendi Sierra

12. Twisted Together: Twine Games as Solidarity Machines | Kendall Gerdes

Section 5: Critical Making as Instructional Design

13. Cultivating Critical Makers: Crafting with Paper-Electronic Circuits in an Online First Year Composition Course | Bree McGregor

14. Crafting in the Classroom: Carpentry and Pedagogy in Rhetoric and Composition | John Jones

Index

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