{"product_id":"rhetorical-machines-writing-code-and-computational-ethics-paperback-softback-9780817359546","title":"Rhetorical Machines; Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359546","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRhetorical Machines\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting, Code, and Computational Ethics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Jones (Edited by), Lavinia Hirsu (Edited by), John Jones (Introduction by), Lavinia Hirsu (Introduction by), Jennifer Juszkiewicz (Contributions by), Joseph Warfel (Contributions by), Elizabeth Losh (Contributions by), Jonathan Buehl (Contributions by), Jennifer Helene Maher (Contributions by), Helen J. Burgess (Contributions by), Tim Menzies (Contributions by), Kevin Brock (Contributions by), Ryan M. Omizo (Contributions by), Ian Clark (Contributions by), Minh-Tam Nguyen (Contributions by), William Hart-Davidson (Contributions by), Joshua Daniel-Wariya (Contributions by), James Chase Sanchez (Contributions by), Anthony Stagliano (Contributions by), James J. Brown (Contributions by), Annette Vee (Contributions by), J. W. Hammond (Contributions by), John Jones (Contributions by), Lavinia Hirsu (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359546\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 July 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 15 black \u0026amp; white figures, 13 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 2 cm, 0.498 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhetorical Machines\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDigital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"\u003ci\u003eRhetorical Machines \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eFeeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRhetorical Machines\u003c\/i\u003e 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 thus has powerful ethical and moral implications. From Socrates's critique of writing in Plato's \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/i\u003e to emerging new media and internet culture, the scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This multidisciplinary volume features contributions from scholar-practitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main sections: \"\"Emergent Machines\"\" examines how technologies and algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes, \"\"Operational Codes\"\" explores how computational processes are used to achieve rhetorical ends, \"\"Ethical Decisions and Moral Protocols\"\" considers the ethical implications involved in designing software and that software's impact on computational culture, and the final section includes two scholars' responses to the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents) addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e At the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer science, writing studies, and the digital humanities.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: Emergent Machines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. A Conversation with A.L.I.C.E.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Engines of Rhetoric: Charles Babbage and His Rhetorical Work with Mechanical Computers by Jonathan Buehl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–\u003cbr\u003e1965 by J. W. Hammond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin Brock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: Operational Codes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. A Conversation with Mitsuku\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph Warfel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase Sanchez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: Ethical Decisions and Protocols\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. A Conversation with Elbot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony Stagliano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim Menzies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth Losh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart IV: Responses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to \u003ci\u003eRhetorical Machines\u003c\/i\u003e by Annette Vee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523256414488,"sku":"9780817359546","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rhetorical-machines-writing-code-and-computational-ethics-paperback-softback-9780817359546","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}