Working from the popular notion of "cool," this innovative text challenges students to think and write critically about how popular culture terms and phenomena are constructed. Ideal for instructors interested in integrating cultural studies and technology into their classrooms, this text examines the popular notion of "cool" as a means of understanding the cultural dimensions of electronic writing as well as the rhetorical strategies implicit in such writing. By providing content-specific assignments to be created in HTML, the textbook merges the subject of cool with technology-based writing instruction. Students are encouraged to think critically about the construction of popular culture and taught how to write critically about various popular culture phenomenon. Through the study of Web, advertising, literature, and technology usages of cool, students learn how to use HTML to write "cool" themselves.

Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom

Rice, Jeff

Computers & Technology

Longman

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media offers a historical critique of composition studies’ rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work. Author Jeff Rice returns to critical moments during the rebirth of composition studies when the discipline chose not to emphasize technology, cultural studies, and visual writing, which are now fundamental to composition studies. Rice redefines these moments in order to invent a new electronic practice. The Rhetoric of Cool addresses the disciplinary claim that composition studies underwent a rebirth in 1963. At that time, three writers reviewed technology, cultural studies, and visual writing outside composition studies and independently used the word cool to describe each position. Starting from these three positions, Rice focuses on chora, appropriation, commutation, juxtaposition, nonlinearity, and imagery— rhetorical gestures conducive to new media work-- to construct the rhetoric of cool. An innovative work that approaches computers and writing issues from historical, critical, theoretical, and practical perspectives, The Rhetoric of Cool challenges current understandings of writing and new media and proposes a rhetorical rather than an instrumental response for teaching writing in new media contexts.

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media

Literature & Fiction

Southern Illinois University Press

Since the 1967 riots that ripped apart the city, Detroit has traditionally been viewed either as a place in ruins or a metropolis on the verge of rejuvenation. In Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, author Jeff Rice goes beyond the notion of Detroit as simply a city of two ideas. Instead he explores the city as a web of multiple meanings which, in the digital age, come together in the city’s spaces to form a network that shapes the writing, the activity, and the very thinking of those around it. Rice focuses his study on four of Detroit’s most iconic places—Woodward Avenue, the Maccabees Building, Michigan Central Station, and 8 Mile—covering each in a separate chapter. Each of these chapters explains one of the four features of network rhetoric: folksono(me), the affective interface, response, and decision making. As these rhetorical features connect, they form the overall network called Digital Detroit. Rice demonstrates how new media, such as podcasts, wikis, blogs, interactive maps, and the Internet in general, knit together Detroit into a digital network whose identity is fluid and ever-changing. In telling Detroit’s spatial story, Rice deftly illustrates how this new media, as a rhetorical practice, ultimately shapes understandings of space in ways that computer applications and city planning often cannot. The result is a model for a new way of thinking and interacting with space and the imagination, and for a better understanding of the challenges network rhetorics pose for writing.

Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of resources, craft breweries have proliferated despite these challenges by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft beer as a case study to demonstrate how social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter function to shape stories about craft. Rice weaves together theories of writing, narrative, new media, and rhetoric with a personal story of his passion for craft beer. He identifies six key elements of social media rhetoric—anecdotes, repetition, aggregation, delivery, sharing, and imagery—and examines how each helps to transform small, personal experiences with craft into a more widespread movement. When shared via social media, craft anecdotes—such as the first time one had a beer—interrupt and repeat one another, building a sense of familiarity and identity among otherwise unconnected people. Aggregation, the practice of joining unlike items into one space, builds on this network identity, establishing a connection to particular brands or locations, both real and virtual. The public releases of craft beers are used to explore the concept of craft delivery, which involves multiple actors across multiple spaces and results in multiple meanings. Finally, Rice highlights how personal sharing operates within the community of craft beer enthusiasts, who share online images of acquiring, trading for, and consuming a wide variety of beers. These shared stories and images, while personal for each individual, reflect the dependence of craft on systems of involvement. Throughout, Rice relates and reflects on his own experience as a craft beer enthusiast and his participation via social media in these systems. Both an objective scholarly study and an engaging personal narrative about craft beer, Craft Obsession provides valuable insights into digital writing, storytelling, and social media.

Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beverages & Wine

Kolchak the Night Stalker: He's BACK! This is the on that started it all! The inspiration behind the "X-Files"! TV's first paranormal investigator, reporter Carl Kolchak, is drawn into a series of unusual murders in Las Vegas, where all the victims suffer from "severe blood loss". What isreally prowling the streets of this gambling mecca? It's Kolchak versus the rest of the world, as he fights for the truth, while battling corruption, ignorance, terror, and ultimately, himself. This first book is an adaptation of the novel, on which one of themost watched TV movies of all time is based. Kolchak's creator, Jeff Rice himself, scripts the story!

Kolchak Night Stalker

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Moonstone

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<li>This volume contains 4 stories of TV's first paranormal investigator Carl Kolchak! </li> <li>Thrill again to the story of a vampire in Las Vegas, based on the TV movie that still has one of the highest ratings of all time! (This story was adapted from the screen by Kolchak's creator, writer Jeff Rice.) Then, experience the terror of a small mining town that has unexplained murders. (Adapted from an unfilmed episode of the TV show.) Third, get the chills from horror/mystery novelist extraordinaire Stuart Kaminsky's original Kolchak tale of experiencing your worst fears! Last, but not least, there is an all-new Kolchak tale from X-Files scribe Stefan Petrucha!</li>
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Kolchak The Night Stalker Volume 1

KAMINSKY, STUART M.

Gentile, Joe

Petrucha, Stefan

Primenlight is a book that will make you ponder on the subtleties of life It will allow you to see things in whole new light It will allow you to dive into the waves of light sound and life We are all one under the guidance of the One God He is the Creator Architect and great Mathematician that spindles the fabric of life expressed in numbers This book will uncover the secrets in repeating numbers and their meaning to our life and will enlighten you in the power of the One and the numbers that pertain to one Primes Our life upon this planet is based upon waves Light and sound waves penetrate us move us and stimulate us to the point that we know we are alive Waves are based upon spirals and circles that continually repeat themselves I have proven in this book that numbers especially prime numbers are based upon circles and spirals Everything in life is spiraling around a center point of rest such as the planets spiraling around the sun or electrons spiraling around a nucleus Our own lives spiral around the things that interest and motivate us Once we tune our lives around the true center of peace God we will be on true course of orbiting around the One Primenlight will explore the secret discoveries behind the Primelight Matrix design Primesong and PrimeOrbits The Primelight Matrix reveals the discovery of the formula for prime numbers which is embedded in a matrix called The Whirlwind which spins like a key and unlocks the secret to primes Primesong is a mysterious enchanting and never ending melody that will resonate a prime essence PrimeOrbits is a discovery within prime numbers that is in comparison with Rutherfords model of electrons spinning around a nucleus Prime your life with this inspirational uplifting and powerful book

Primenlight

Self-Help

Xlibris

The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Professor Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular events, but generated out of subversive, aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.

Web Development & Design

University of South Carolina Press

<ul><li>In 1972, Jeff Rice's novel The Night Stalker introduced Carl Kolchak to the world. This spine-tingling novel of supernatural terror became an instant bestseller and served as the basis for the film of the same name, starring Darren M</li></ul>

The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels

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Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media

Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network

Craft Obsession: The Social Rhetorics of Beer

Kolchak Night Stalker

Kolchak The Night Stalker Volume 1

Primenlight

The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

The Kolchak Papers: The Original Novels