Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media

This book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing to firmly establish the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. Contributors look to establish ecological writing studies not just as a legitimate or important form of research, but as paramount to the future of writing studies and writing theory.

Moving beyond ecocomposition, this book galvanizes conversations in ecology and writing not with an eye toward homogenization, but with an agenda of firmly establishing the significance of writing research that intersects with ecology. It looks to establish ecological writing studies not just as a legitimate or important form of writing research, but as paramount to the future of writing studies and writing theory. Complex ecologies, writing studies, and new-media/post-media converge to highlight network theories, systems theories, and posthumanist theories as central in the shaping of writing theory, and this study embraces work in these areas as essential to the development of ecological theories of writing. Contributors address ecological theories of writing by way of diverse and promising avenues, united by the underlying commitment to better understand how ecological methodologies might help better inform our understanding of writing and might provoke new theories of writing. Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media fuels future theoretical conversations about ecology and writing and will be of interest to those who are interested in theories of writing and the function of writing.

Autorentext

Sidney I. Dobrin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida, US.

Inhalt

1. Ecology, Writing, and the Future of Writing Studies, Sidney I. Dobrin 2. In Terms Of Writing: I.e., Raúl Sánchez 3. Writing Ecologies, Rhetorical Epidemics, Kristen Seas 4. Cosmopolitan Ethics, Textual Piracy, and Rhetorical Salvage, Joe Marshal Hardin 5. Circulation, Transformation, and Consequentiality: An Ecological Perspective of Delivery for the Digital Age, Laurie Gries 6. The Virtual Reality of Disciplines: Network(ed) Rhetorics and the Construction of Knowledge, Collin Gifford Brooke 7. Digital Ecologies, Sean Morey 8. Post-Media Occupations for Writing Theory, John Tinnell 9. Ecotechnics: The Heuretics of Entelechy, Gregory L. Ulmer 10. Circulating Musics: Digital Ecologies in ReverbNation, Byron Hawk 11. The Ecology of the Question: Reading Austin's Public Housing Debates, 1937-1938, Jenny Edbauer Rice 12. In Choric Space, Everyone Can You Scream . . . And Scream . . . And Scream . . ., Thomas Rickert 13. What do Rhetorical Ecologies Produce? A Theory of Sustainable Social Objects, William Hart-Davidson 14. Ecology, Ecologies, and Institutions: Eco and Composition, Donnie Johnson Sackey and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss