The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons

By E. Johanna Hartelius

The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons provides an extensive analysis of knowledge and creativity in twenty-first century networked culture. Analyzing massive projects like the Wayback Machine, the Internet Archive, and the Creative Commons licenses, The Gifting Logos responds to a fundamental question, What does it mean to know something and to make something? With the idea of a gifting logos, Hartelius integrates three habits of a rhetorical epistemology: the invention of cultural materials such as text, images, and software; the imbuing or encoding of the materials with the creator's experience; and the constitution and dissemination of the materials as gifts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520339630
• ISBN13: 9780520339637
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"