Collin Brooke is the winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for his book Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media (Hampton Press, 2009)! According to the Computers and Composition website, the “award honors book-length works that contribute in substantial and innovative ways to the field of computers and composition.” The committee received seven nominations, and Collin’s book was the clear winner!

Lingua Fracta begins “from the assumption that there is an intrinsically technological dimension to rhetoric, arguing that we have become so accustomed to practicing rhetoric in the context of print technologies that we have often naturalized or ignored that dimension. New communication and information technologies do not simply provide us with new sites of rhetorical practice; instead they challenge us to reconceive rhetoric altogether. This groundbreaking volume argues that a rhetoric of new media should attend to `ecologies of practice,’ treating interfaces rather than texts as our sites and units of analysis.” For more on the book, see http://wrt.syr.edu/newsarchive/brooke/lingua_fracta/.

For more on the award and past winners, including Adam Banks who won the award in 2006, see http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/awards/distinguishedbook.htm