Building Rhetoric One Bit at a Time: A Case of Maker Rhetoric with littleBits

Date

2018

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Publisher

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

Abstract

In this webtext, we share our experiences in a new media graduate course in which students played and experimented with littleBits (modular circuitry designed for easy invention). Students created three-dimensional objects and new media documentation about using littleBits. Modular three-dimensional objects, we argue, provide opportunities to introduce new media to students in ways that disrupt their conventional practices of invention; provide opportunities to explore rhetorical practice as play, failure, and risk-taking; refigure creation as remix and craft; and meet the goals of rhetoric, composition, and technical communication classes in creating rhetorical products that do things in the world.

Description

This is a web-based peer-reviewed article available at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.2/praxis/faris-et-al/index.html

Keywords

Rhetoric, Composition, Technical communication, littleBits, Maker rhetoric, Invention, Play, Critical making

Citation

Faris, Michael J., Blick, Andrew M., Labriola, Jack T., Hankey, Leslie, May, Jamie May, & Mangum, Richard T. (2018). Building rhetoric one bit at a time: A case of maker rhetoric with littleBits. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 22(2). Available at http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/22.2/praxis/faris-et-al/index.html

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