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Call for Chapters: Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked WorldEditorsGustav Verhulsdonck, PhD (New Mexico State University, USA)
Marohang Limbu, PhD (Michigan State University, USA)
Call for ChaptersProposals Submission Deadline: November 30, 2012
Full Chapters Due: January 31, 2013
Introduction
Rhetoric as a discipline has existed for at least 2500 years if not longer. Aristotle defined it as the ability to persuade an audience under various circumstances. Rhetoric informs various disciplines and is useful in grounding technological processes by asking valid questions about purpose, context, and audience. Current digital technologies, such as web 2.0, social networks, cloud computing, mobile apps, video games, and virtual worlds use rhetorical principles to engage, inform, instruct, persuade, and (inter)act in novel ways. These expressions of new digital modes and practices form a new digital rhetoric that extends traditional ancient rhetoric.
Rather than persuasion, digital rhetoric utilizes information processes that require different modalities and practices that happen across global contexts and create novel literacies. Digital rhetoric is different from traditional rhetoric because it emphasizes information and interaction in human-computer-human and human-computer interaction contexts. Therefore, it is important to understand these new digital modes and practices. In the fields of rhetoric, technical and intercultural communication, information science, human-computer interaction, systems theory, and computer science, there is a need for an edited collection of articles focusing on theories, modes, practices and emerging areas for professionals, scholars, researchers, and educators.
Objective of the Book
The book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks, current practical applications, and emerging practices of digital rhetoric. The book will do so by developing new key principles and understandings of the underlying modes, practices, and literacies of communication brought about by digital technologies. Its aim is to provide a robust framework of digital rhetoric, a historical grounding, theoretical/ practical approaches, and emerging practices from a medialogical perspective as forming newer global literacies. In addition, the book will aim to strengthen the basis for digital rhetoric by encouraging multi-disciplinary discussions between programmers, information developers, mobile strategists, game designers, and other practitioners with media and information in general.The importance of this book lies in its ability to clarify, synthesize, and prepare useful strategies, modes, and ideas and so bring forth a solid understanding of digital rhetoric as an important developing discipline.
Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals, scholars, researchers, and educators working in rhetoric, technical/professional and intercultural communication, information science, human-computer interaction, systems theory, and computer science. In bringing together such diverse perspectives, it aims to show that interdisciplinary perspectives will help inform, clarify, and enrich this burgeoning area of research in digital rhetoric.
Topics
As described, we are looking for multi-disciplinary discussions between programmers, information developers, mobile strategists, game designers, and practitioners in rhetoric, technical communication, and information science in general. As the title indicates, our interest is two-fold in that we are looking at the intersection of digital rhetoric and global literacies.
1) Digital Rhetoric
Digital rhetoric studies the human and the machine in conjunction with a focus on communication. Since digital rhetoric is uncharted territory to a degree, we are looking for people who are interested in contributing chapters on human-computer-human interaction (HCHI) and human-computer interaction (HCI). As such, we seek contributors interested in rhetorical (communicative) modes, given or emerging communication practices, and underlying human or computer efforts to interact, inform, instruct, persuade, or simply act upon information.
2) Global Literacies
Global literacies involve how meaning and knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed across cultures in various domains utilizing digital technologies. We are specifically interested in what contributors see as the key underlying communication and meaning-making principles behind these processes.
The below topics outline some of the areas that we see as promising for developing a new definition of digital rhetoric and informing what global literacies are developing as a result of these digital practices. Theory and research-based papers are welcome. Contributors are encouraged to write about the following topics.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Historical, Theoretical, and Conceptual Perspectives on Digital Communication:
* Key principles of media and modes in digital rhetoric
* Theories of media in digital rhetoric/historical background
* Multimodalities and multiliteracies in digital rhetoric
* Global literacies in digital rhetoric
* Web 2.0, social media, cloud computing, and global digital rhetorics
Practices of digital communication across cultures in:
* Digital rhetoric and global literacies
* Web 2.0, social media, and global digital rhetorics
* Cloud technology and rhetoric from a local to global context
* Utilizing collaborative, computer-mediated work
* Pedagogical/business/technical communication/public/political contexts
* Enhancing digital citizenship from local to global (cross-cultural) contexts
* Developing research skills and information literacy
* Cultivating critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making
Emerging Issues of digital communication in:
* Social networking
* Cloud computing
* Mobile computing
* Video games/ Mobile Games/ Online Social Games etc.
* Virtual worlds and virtual reality
* Mobile applications/apps
* Crowdsourcing, wikis, and computer-mediated-collaborative work
* Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP)
* Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS)
* Augmented reality systems
* Rhetoric of programming languages
* Semantic markup/web
* Data mining and recommender systems
* Algorithms, binary and procedural communication
* Digital networking literacies
* Digital global/local pedagogies
Submission Procedure
Researchers, scholars, theorists, and practitioners are invited to submit on or before November 30, 2012, a 2-3 page chapter proposal (including an abstract) clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by December 30, 2012 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by January 31, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2013.
Important Dates
November 30, 2012: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 30, 2012: Notification of Acceptance
January 31, 2013: Full Chapter Submission
April 30, 2013: Review Results Returned
June 15, 2013: Final Chapter Submission
July 15, 2013: Final Deadline
More information about this book can be accessed at
Dr. Verhulsdonck’s website http://gverhulsdonck.wix.com/index
Dr. Limbu’s website http://www.marohanglimbu.com/cfc-digirhet
For specific questions, inquiries or issues, contact us
at the following address: Gustav Verhulsdonck, PhD
Department of English
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
Tel.: +001 575 646 3931 • Fax: +001 575 646 7726
E-mail: gverhulsdonck@gmail.com Marohang Limbu, PhD
Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
Michingan State University, USA
245 Bessy Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel.: +001 517 355 2400 • Fax +001 517 353 5250
E-mail: marohang@gmail.com Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):
Gustav Verhulsdonck, PhD
Department of English
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, U.S.A.
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