Rhetoric Technology: An Overview of Research Interests

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Rhetoric TechnologyAn Overview of Research
Interests

• Ben McCorkle OSU Jan 2005

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DissertationTongue, Nib, Block, Bit Rhetorical
Delivery and Technologies of Writing

• Cross-historical reading of rhetorics lost
  canon
• Expanding Bolter Grusins theory of remediation
• Reciprocal dynamic of technology and rhetorical
  theory/praxis

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Post-Dissertation The New Interface Paradigm

• What does it mean for writing communicating?
• For subjectivity?
• For rhetorical theory?

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Visual Culture

• Convergences
• Rhetorical Visions
• Curricular Program Development
• Continued Development with Project IM, website,
  pilot.

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New Media in the Classroom

• Theorizing New Media
• Teaching New Media
• Studying New Media as an issue of reception and
  production

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Helping Build the New Media Studies Community

• Developing standards, Setting initiatives
• Establishing resources for teaching/research in
  New Media
• Valuing new media for our own professional work