Digital griots: African American rhetoric in a multimedia age

Digital griots: African American rhetoric in a multimedia age

Choice, Vol.49(8), p.1432
04/01/2012
Banks, Adam J Nonfiction African Americans Book reviews Rhetoric Communication
A number of compositionists, including Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart Selber, have used the tropes of "mix" and "remix" to explain digital writing practices-and have even referred to the current age as "remix culture." Banks (Univ. of Kentucky) asks "what we might learn from the rhetorical practices and traditions of the culture that gave us the remix." He links print, oral, and digital productions in ways that locate African American discursive practices at the center...
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