Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media

Isabel Pedersen New Media Theory Edited by Byron Hawk Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-400-5 (paperback, $27); 978-1-60235-401-2 (hardcover, $60); 978-1-60235-402-9 (PDF, $20). © 2013 by Parlor Press. 195 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliography. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. What People Are Saying Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media surveys an immense range of emerging technologies, most of which have not even been mentioned in existing scholarship on rhetoric and new media. Pedersen performs a much-needed expansion of the field’s radar in an era of rapid innovation, planned obsolescence, and mind-blowing prototypes. —John Tinnell, University of Colorado Denver About This Book Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media is a book about the future but geared to the present. More and more, we are asked to adopt new or future technologies before