Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics

ISBN-13: 9780817359546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str.

John Jones; Lavinia Hirsu; John Jones

Opis

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.

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction by John Jones and Lavinia Hirsu
• Part I: Emergent Machines
• Chapter 1. A Conversation with A.L.I.C.E.
• Chapter 2. Engines of Rhetoric: Charles Babbage and His Rhetorical Work with Mechanical Computers by Jonathan Buehl
• Chapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–1965 by J. W. Hammond
• Chapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin Brock
• Part II: Operational Codes
• Chapter 5. A Conversation with Mitsuku
• Chapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph Warfel
• Chapter 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
• Chapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase Sanchez
• Part III: Ethical Decisions and Protocols
• Chapter 9. A Conversation with Elbot
• Chapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony Stagliano
• Chapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim Menzies
• Chapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth Losh
• Part IV: Responses
• Chapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr.
• Chapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to Rhetorical Machines by Annette Vee
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index