The Rhetorical Ecology of the Technical Effect

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Abstract This article calls for close attention to the current moment when many technologies are becoming routine, occupying a space between "unknown and unnoticed," and for formation of a digital rhetoric that addresses software's liminality, ubiquity, and exteriority. It briefly examines the emerging discourse of the Free and Open Source Software movements and suggests that a closer alignment with software studies in coming years will be mutually beneficial to both fields.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2005-07-01
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10.1207/s15427625tcq1403_13
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