This companion brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the written landscape.

Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Writing and Communication. The author, co-author, or editor of thirteen books, he writes frequently about multimedia, transmedia, digital literacies, pop culture, and sexuality. With Jacqueline Rhodes, he is the co-author or co-editor of the award-winning texts On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (2014), and Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self (2015), and Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics (2015).

Jacqueline Rhodes is professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of a number of books and articles that explore the intersections of materiality and technology, including Radical Feminism, Writing, and Critical Agency (2005), On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies (2014), and Sexual Rhetorics: Methods, Identities, Publics (2015).

Part I: Cultural & Historical Contexts Part II: Beyond Writing Part III: Being Rhetorical & Digital Part IV: Selves & Subjectivities Part V: Regulation & Control Part VI: Multimodality, Transmediation & Participatory Cultures Part VII: The Politics & Economics of Digital Writing & Rhetoric