Prelude: Rhetoric, Cultural, and Technology Design

Balsamo, Anne M. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

Ehses, H. “Representing Macbeth: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric.” Design Issues 1.1 (1984): 53-63.

Zappen, James P. “Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory.” Technical Communication Quarterly 14.3 (2005): 319-

25.

 

Unit 1: Rhetoric, Gender and Genre-Based Design on the Web

Askehave, Inger, and Anne Ellerup Nielsen. “Digital Genres: A Challenge to Traditional Genre Theory.” Information

Technology & People 18.2 (2005): 120-41.

Balsamo, Anne M. Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Balsamo, Anne M, and Mary Hocks. “Women of the World Talk Back: A Multimedia Documentary on CD-ROM.” Women

of the World Talk Back.  Georgia State University, n.d. Web. Mon. 16 Dec. 2013.

Duckett, Jon.  Html & CSS: Design and Build Websites. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley, 2011. Print.

Osborn, Jeremy, and Jennifer Smith. Web Design with Html and CCC: Digital Classroom. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Pub,

2011.

 

Unit 2: Rhetoric, Race and Visual Culture on the Web

Brumberger, Eva. “The Rhetoric of Typography: the Awareness and Impact of Typeface Appropriateness.” Technical

Communication 50 (2003): 224-231.

Franz, Laura. Typographic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typographer in HTML and CSS. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, 2012.

Haley, Alan. “It’s About Legibility.” Fontology. Fonts, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2013

Lupton, Ellen, and Hanno H. J. Ehses. Rhetorical Handbook: An Illustrated Manual for Graphic Designers. Halifax: Dept. of

Visual Communication, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1996.

Neylan, Callie. “Typography for the Web: Webinar Recap and Resources.” Breakthroughs: Where Inspiration and

Technology Meet. AIGA, 14 Dec. 2011. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.

Trimbur, John. “Delivering the message: Typography and the materiality of writing.” Rhetoric and Composition as

Intellectual Work (2002): 188-202.

Trummel, Paul. “Rhetoric+Typography: Creative Interaction in Modern Communication.” IEEE Transactions on

Professional Communication 31.3 (1988): 124—9.

 

Interlude: Designing Aesthetically for the Web

Kadavy, David. Design for Hackers: Reverse-engineering Beauty. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2011. Williams, M.F. “Reimagining NASA: a Cultural and Visual Analysis of the U.s. Space Program.” Journal of Business and

Technical Communication. 26.3 (2012): 368-389.

 

Unit 3: Rhetoric of Designing Culture through Articulation

Jones, Tao. “Is Your Font Racist.” New York Times. 20 Jun. 2012. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.

Lavin, Maud. Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001. Internet resource.

Shaw, Paul. “Stereo Types.” Print. June 2009. Web. 15 Dec. 2013.