Communicating Mobility and Technology : A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation

Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

ISBN 10: 1472434722 / ISBN 13: 9781472434722

Published by Taylor & Francis Jul 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder applies kinaesthetic rhetoric to automobility, or the specific kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies and their ramifications. He looks at electric taxi cabs from the turn of the century to modern day, open-source vehicle projects, and a large case study of an autonomous, electric pod car network that ultimately failed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Communicating Mobility and Technology : A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Jul 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472434722
• ISBN 13: 9781472434722
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 155H x 15D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 408 grams

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Synopsis

Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication

Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term used to describe the kinds of mobility afforded by autonomous, automobile-based movement technologies and their ramifications. Thus far, few studies in technical communication have explored the development of mobility technologies, the immense power that highly structured, environmentally significant systems have in the world, or the human-machine interactions that take place in such activities. Applying kinaesthetic rhetoric, a rhetoric that is sensitive to and developed from the mobile, material context of these technologies, Pflugfelder looks at transportation projects such as electric taxi cabs from the turn of the century to modern day, open-source vehicle projects, and a large case study of an autonomous, electric pod car network that ultimately failed. Kinaesthetic rhetoric illuminates how mobility technologies have always been persuasive wherever and whenever linguistic symbol systems and material interactions enroll us, often unconsciously, into regimes of movement and ways of experiencing the world. As Pflugfelder shows, mobility technologies involve networks of sustained arguments that are as durable as the bonds between the actors in their networks.

About the Author

Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder is Assistant Professor of Professional, Technical, and Scientific Writing in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University, USA.