Selected Readings

Excerpts or selected texts from the below list can be assigned to students in a college-level digital writing course along with the Broadview Press Digital Writing handbook. The readings below reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the field of digital writing and pull from sources in classical rhetoric, modern and digital rhetoric, the philosophy of technology, and digital/new media theory.

Adams, Tim. “Jaron Lanier: ‘The Solution Is to Double Down on Being Human.’” The Guardian, 12 November 2017. www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/12/jaron-lanier-book-dawn-new-everything-interview-virtual-reality.

Bitzer, Lloyd. “The Rhetorical Situation.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, vol. 1, no.1, January 1968, pp. 1–14. www.jstor.org/stable/40236733.

Bogost, Ian. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames. MIT Press, 2010.

Eyman, Douglas. Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. U Michigan Press, 2015. www.press.umich.edu/4536325/digital_rhetoric.

Feenberg, Andrew. “What Is Philosophy of Technology?” Lecture for the Komaba Undergraduates, Simon Fraser U, June 2003. www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/books/What_is_Philosophy_of_Technology.pdf.

Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology.” Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, edited by David Farrell Krell, Harper & Row, 1993, pp. 287–317.

Johnson, Eric. “If You Can Quit Social Media, But Don’t, Then You’re Part of the Problem, Jaron Lanier Says.” Vox, 27July 2018. www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17618756/jaron-lanier-deleting-social-media-book-kara-swisher-too-embarrassed-podcast.

Kunzru, Hari. Interview with Donna Haraway. “You Are Cyborg.” WIRED, 1 February 1997. www.wired.com/1997/02/ffharaway/.

Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget. Vintage Books, 2010.

Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Henry Holt & Co., 2018.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT Press, 2001.

Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Penguin Random House, 2020.

Stolley, Karl. “The Lo-Fi Manifesto.” Manifestos! special issue of Kairos, vol. 12, no. 3, Summer 2008. kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/topoi/stolley/.