Review Essay: New Media Affordances and the Connected Life

Reviewed are: Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, William Powers. Rhetorics and Technologies: New Directions in Writing and Communication, Stuart Selber, editor. From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup, Bradley Dilger and Jeff Rice, editors. Technological Ecologies & Sustainability, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe, editors. Generaciones’ Narratives: The Pursuit and Practice of Traditional and Electronic Literacies on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, John Scenters-Zapico.