Because of our undergrad program's focus on technology and new media and because of my own obsession with network technologies, piracy, hacking, and all things slightly/supposedly nefarious on the web, I decided to theme the course around the intersections between rhetorics, technologies, and ethics. The first half of the course is mostly theoretical: we'll read some definitions of rhetoric and some of the classics (Bitzer and Vatz) as well as some of my favorite discussions of rhetoric and technology (Jenny Bay, Byron Hawk, Thomas Rickert, Marc Santos, and others). We'll also read some Haraway and Latour as well as Lessig, Jenkins, DJ Spooky, and Aaron Schwartz and talk about what we mean by technology, new media, etc.
Here's my reading list:
Week 1: Introduction
- “What are English Majors For” (Miller and Jackson)
- “Made not only in Words” (Yancey)
Week 2: Introduction
- “The Question of Defining Rhetoric”
- Introduction from Ambient Rhetoric (Rickert)
- "The Rhetorical Situation” (Bitzer)
- “The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation” (Vatz)
Week 3: Rhetoric and Technology
- “The Medium is the Message” video lecture (McLuhan)
- “Introduction” from Rhetoric of Cool (Rice)
- “How the Internet Saved My Daughter” (Santos; http://www.technorhetoric.net/15.2/topoi/santos/)
Week 4: Rhetoric and Technology
- “Toward a Rhetoric of Network (Media) Culture” (Hawk)
- "Screening (In)Formation: Bodies and Writing in Network Culture” (Bay)
- “3-D Avatar Could Put You in Two Places at Once” (Tierney; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12tier.html)
Week 5: Theories of Technology
- “Manifesto for Cyborgs” (Haraway)
- "The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg” (Chocano; http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/magazine/what-happens-when-data-disappears.html?pagewanted=all)
Week 6: Theories of Technology
- “Love Your Monsters” (Latour)
- “Where are the Missing Masses?” (Latour)
Week 7: Technological Culture
- “Rexamining the Remix” (Lessig; http://www.ted.com/talks/lessig_nyed.html)
- “How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World” (Shirky; http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cognitive_surplus_will_change_the_world.html)
- Excerpts from Convergence Culture (Jenkins)
- “What Technology Wants” (Kelly; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-5CMozGWY)
- DJ Spooky at TEDxAustin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYUEOqwOOW8)
- “War for the Web” excerpts (Schwartz; http://vimeo.com/57539840)
Week 8: Rhetoric and Ethics
- The Ethic of Expediency” (Katz)
- “Among Texts” (Johnson-Eilola)
- “Emotion, Ethics, and Rhetorical Action” (Micche)
Week 9: Hacking and Ethics
- “The Hacker’s Ethic” (http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/hacker_ethics.html )
- “Hacker Practice” (Coleman and Golab)
- “Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls” (Coleman)
Weeks 10 and 11: Case Study #1 – Anonymous
- “Hacktivisits as Gadflies” (Ludlow; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/hacktivists-as-gadflies)
- “What is a Hacktivist?” (Ludlow; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/what-is-a-hacktivist)
- “Am I Anonymous?” (Coleman; http://limn.it/am-i-anonymous/)
- “Our Weirdness is Free” (Coleman; http://gabriellacoleman.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Coleman-Weirdness-Free-May-Magazine.pdf)
- “How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down” (Norton; http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/ff_anonymous/)
- “Indictment Of Reuters' Matthew Keys Points To Dark, Complex World Of Anonymous” (Olson; http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/03/14/a-reporters-indictment-in-the-dark-world-of-hackers-and-anonymous/)
Weeks 12 and 13: Case Study #2 – P2P
- “You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You” (Tassi; http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you/ )
- “Why Napster Matters to Writing” (DeVoss and Porter)
- Steal This Film
- “A Nation Divided Over Piracy” (Norton; http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71544?currentPage=all”
- Selections from Free Culture (Lessig)
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