Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers

Bump Halbritter * Winner of the 2013 Distinguished Book Award from Computers and Composition. New Media Theory Edited by Byron Hawk Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-336-7 (paperback, $32); 978-1-60235-337-4 (hardcover, $65); 978-1-60235-338-1 (PDF, $19.99) © 2013 by Parlor Press. 275 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action: Audio-Visual Rhetoric for Writing Teachers addresses the current technological challenges and opportunities of writing teachers through a conceptualization of writing and reading that could not have been imagined by many writing teachers at the turn of the twenty-first century. While Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action looks forward to emerging writing technologies, it finds its theoretical foundations by looking back to Kenneth Burke’s concept of symbolic action. Mics, Cameras, Symbolic Action situates its pedago