HU520 The Rhetorics of a Print/Digital Culture
A Brief Rationale, Some Description, & Introductions
(See also Dickie's, "So what good it do?" and Bill's "Intro. notes." and the class' online class introductions--first day.
Graduate students and graduate faculty in English studies programs straddle the print and digital worlds in a very real way because their intellectual interests, professional prospects, and teaching approaches depend on how they accommodate, resist, and make use of both worlds.
More generally, these two central modes of discourse in our culture combine to influence the way we think, work, and create. This course will review historical representations of print and digital technologies and combine those with current critical speculations about where they are taking our profession (broadly defined as English Studies), our private/public lives, and our culture. The object of this exploration will be to construct a critical rhetoric of media use.