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Nostalgia and New Media: Designing Difference into Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology

Kurlinkus, William C
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397529531

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
In this project I construct a democratic model of new media composing education and production that uses nostalgia (a community, tradition, and emotion-focused lens) to uncover design lessons within a diverse set of techno-composing milieus: the hipster craft movement, the new capitalist workplace, debates in the field of composition studies, and several client-designer interactions. In doing so, I argue that because communities value diverse technological pasts, so, too, do they inevitably imagine diverse ideal futures. Sadly, citizens and students who value technological futures beyond efficient high-tech profusion are historically labeled technophobic and/or illiterate. Through such a dismissal, scholars of technology--from ER doctors to new media composition instructors--miss out on a wide array of design assets and possible futures that could make the world a better place. To counter this anemic thinking, I develop a cross-cultural rhetoric of technology, which uses nostalgia to identify, mediate, and design from techno-logical "contact zones" (see Pratt; Pfaffenberger; Selfe and Selfe; Canagarajah), spaces where different communities with different understandings, values, goals, and literacies surrounding writing technologies interact and clash in systems of uneven power. In doing so, I call for the expansion of definitions of technological literacy in new media composition; I argue for teaching composing students to mediate technological conflicts; and I illustrate how composers can learn from the contextualized memories of their audiences in order to create more inclusive, creative, and profitable texts.
Cynthia Selfe (Advisor)
H. Lewis Ulman (Committee Member)
Beverly Moss (Committee Member)
Nancy Johnson (Committee Member)
Susan Delagrange (Committee Member)
200 p.
American Studies; Communication; Composition; Design; Education; Education Philosophy; Literacy; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Technical Communication; Technology
nostalgia; new media; rhetoric; composition; literacy; technology; design; wicked design; new media composition; multimodality; multimodal composing; multiliteracy; philosophy of technology; technology; democratic design; metis

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  • Kurlinkus, W. C. (2014). Nostalgia and New Media: Designing Difference into Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397529531

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kurlinkus, William. Nostalgia and New Media: Designing Difference into Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397529531.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kurlinkus, William. "Nostalgia and New Media: Designing Difference into Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397529531

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