Rhetorical Machines

John Jones is an associate professor and the Director of Digital Media Studies in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. His scholarship has appeared in Communication Design Quarterly Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and the Journal of Business and Technical Communication.  Lavinia Hirsu is a lecturer of applied linguistics, composition, and English as a foreign language at the University of Glasgow. Her work has appeared in Computers and Composition and The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by John Jones and Lavinia HirsuPart I: Emergent MachinesChapter 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 BuehlChapter 3. Definitive Programs: Rhetoric, Computation, and the (Pre)history of Controversy over Automated Essay Scoring, 1954–1965 by J. W. HammondChapter 4. Treating Code as a Persuasive Argument by Kevin BrockPart II: Operational CodesChapter 5. A Conversation with MitsukuChapter 6. The Mathematical Assumptions within Computational Literacy by Jennifer Juszkiewicz and Joseph WarfelChapter 7. Inventing Rhetorical Machines: On Facilitating Learning and Public Participation in Science by Ryan M. Omizo, Ian Clark, Minh-Tam Nguyen, and William Hart-DavidsonChapter 8. Race within the Machine: Ambient Rhetorical Actions and Racial Ideology by Joshua Daniel-Wariya and James Chase SanchezPart III: Ethical Decisions and ProtocolsChapter 9. A Conversation with ElbotChapter 10. Metis in Code: CV Dazzle and the Wily Encounter with Code Libraries by Anthony StaglianoChapter 11. Good Computing with Big Data by Jennifer Helene Maher, Helen J. Burgess, and Tim MenziesChapter 12. Nasty Women and Private Servers: Gender, Technology, and Politics by Elizabeth LoshPart IV: ResponsesChapter 13. Rhetorical Devices by James J. Brown Jr.Chapter 14. Full Stack Rhetoric: A Response to Rhetorical Machines by Annette VeeBibliographyContributorsIndex

Rhetorical Machines provides an extension of current work in digital rhetoric, and helps to add a nuanced and more usable framework than more surface contentions about whether rhetoric and rhetorical agency is limited to humans or can be inhabited and deployed by machines/algorithms/software agents."" - Douglas Eyman, author of Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice""Rhetorical Machines is a timely, interesting, and important collection of essays that makes a valuable contribution to rhetorical studies as well as to the study of technology—especially in terms of questions of computation."" - Brenton J. Malin, author of Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America