Description
Book SynopsisAddresses 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.
Trade ReviewRhetorical Machines provides an extension of current work in digital rhetoric, and helps to add a nuanced and more usable framework than more surface contentions about whether rhetoric and rhetorical agency is limited to humans or can be inhabited and deployed by machines/algorithms/software agents."" - Douglas Eyman, author of
Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice""
Rhetorical Machines is a timely, interesting, and important collection of essays that makes a valuable contribution to rhetorical studies as well as to the study of technology—especially in terms of questions of computation."" - Brenton J. Malin, author of
Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in AmericaTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu
- Part I: Emergent Machines
- Chapter 1. A Conversation with A.L.I.C.E.
- Chapter 2. Engines of Rhetoric: Charles Babbage and His Rhetorical Work with Mechanical Computers by Jonathan Buehl
- Chapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–1965 by J. W. Hammond
- Chapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin Brock
- Part II: Operational Codes
- Chapter 5. A Conversation with Mitsuku
- Chapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph Warfel
- Chapter 7. Inventing Rhetorical Machines: On Facilitating Learning and Public Participation in Science by Ryan M. Omizo, Ian Clark, Minh-Tam Nguyen, and William Hart-Davidson
- Chapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase Sanchez
- Part III: Ethical Decisions and Protocols
- Chapter 9. A Conversation with Elbot
- Chapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony Stagliano
- Chapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim Menzies
- Chapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth Losh
- Part IV: Responses
- Chapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr.
- Chapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to Rhetorical Machines by Annette Vee
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
