Classical Rhetoric:
Read Overview; choose between Brooks & Mara, Fleckenstein, or Rice; read Prior et. al. Core Text; and choose one Prior et. al. node to read
Ball and Hewett, Eds. Special Issue “Classical Rhetoric and Digital Communication: A Canon Blast into the Net” Kairos 11.3 Summer 2007.
Activity Theory:
Read Introduction; choose one article each from “Producing Work and the Economy,” “Producing Selves in Community,” and “Producing Education.”
Bazerman and Russell, eds. Writing Selves/Writing Societies: Research from Activity Perspectives.
Lochlan and Patrick
Genre Theory:
Read Introduction; Choose 3 articles
Bazerman, Bonini, and Figueiredo, eds. Genre in a Changing World.
Brian Doyle and Jen
Feminist Theory (and Technology):
Haraway, Donna. “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”
DeVoss, Danielle. “Rereading Cyborg(?) Women: The Visual Rhetoric of Images of Cyborg (and Cyber) Bodies on the World Wide Web”
Christine and Katie
Theories of Place:
Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World- Ron Scollon and Suzie Wong Scollon
Chapter 1: Geosemiotics
Chapter 4: Visual Semiotics
Chapter 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics
Brian Baxter and Georgia
(Video)Game theory:
Nakamura, Lisa. “Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft”
Murray, Janet. “Toward a Cultural Theory of Gaming: Digital Games and the Co-Evolution of Media, Mind, and Culture.”
Brooker, Will. “Camera-Eye, CG-Eye: Videogames and the “Cinematic”
or, if you can get it:
James Paul Gee: Part 1 from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Comic Theory (you have to get the book)
Scott McCloud Understanding Comics (the rest of the book)
New Media Theory I:
Marshall McCluhan- “Part I” from Understanding Media
Vince and Parker
New Media Theory II:
Lev Manovich: Chapter 1 – “What Is New Media?” from The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich- Chapter 6. “What Is Cinema?” from The Language of New Media
Amanda and Tom
Visual Rhetoric:
James Elkins. Visual Studies.
Bridget and Danny
Visual Rhetoric II
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright. Practices of Looking.
Liz and Davis
