Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton’s annotations, use social media to engage academic and public audiences in the interpretation of cultural texts, and visualize travel via ox cart in third-century Rome or camel caravan in ancient Egypt. Rhetorical scholars are leading the revolution by fully utilizing the digital toolbox, finding themselves at the nexus of digital innovation.

Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities is a timely, multidisciplinary collection that is the first to bridge scholarship in rhetorical studies and the digital humanities. It offers much-needed guidance on how the theories and methodologies of rhetorical studies can enhance all work in digital humanities, and vice versa. Twenty-three essays over three sections delve into connections, research methodology, and future directions in this field. Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson have assembled a broad group of more than thirty accomplished scholars. Read together, these essays represent the cutting edge of research, offering guidance that will energize and inspire future collaborations.

• Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition
• Solving Problems in Technical Communication
• Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, And Composition
• Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice (Digital Humanities)
• Teaching Subject, A: Composition Since 1966, New Edition
• The Rise of Writing: Redefining Mass Literacy
• Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
• Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
• Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition)
• Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent (Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature ; V. 5)