Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice

Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife with the values of those who create it and ...