Digital Griots

Scholar Adam J. Banks offers a mixtape of African American digital rhetoric in this innovative study. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential example of the digital griot-a high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral, print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical commitments.

Adam J. Banks, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital media at the University of Kentucky, is the author of Race, Rhetoric, and Technology: Searching for Higher Ground.