Over the last four decades, Hip Hop has expanded its influence across various demographics, employing principles akin to those found in technical and professional communication, which can be likened to user-localization of digital and communicative technologies. In “Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America”, Tricia Rose(1994), primarily asserts the enriching an intriguing…
. Sankofa symbol It’s critical to note that the field of digital rhetorics is dynamic, and discussions and viewpoints about redefining the field must continue to evolve based on ongoing research and how the field can explore innovative pedagogical approaches that can utilize digital and surfing technologies to enhance teaching writing and composition. Not only…
In Adam Bank’s book, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, he uses ideas of multimodal rhetoric and rhetors as community leaders to help us understand how DJs occupy a space outlined in West African culture for the “griot,” a role Banks defines as a “master of both words and music who is…
My brother and I are home for our grandma’s 90th. We sit on the floor, tailbones aching, paging through dusty stacks of family albums. We trace faces through the protective gloss of picture sleeves. We smile. We laugh. But we also complain: why is it so hard to eliminate the material glare of each photo…
One of my warmest memories is a pattern: me in the passenger’s seat of my grandpa’s (Bobo’s) dusty, wood-paneled station wagon, Bobo behind the wheel, sun glinting off his square framed glasses, telling me a story (probably something comedically jarring, like that time he complimented a villager’s cat in rural Burma, mistakenly using a word…
I figured I would respond to question one, which is also connected to question three on the “blog carnival” prompt, as I intend to revisit some of the responses I have made in the past few weeks in my nineties to answer the question, “What are digital rhetorics now?” and “What, as rhetoric and writing…
I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about AI and its implications for DEI. After reading Bender et al. (2021), I have come to the conclusion that my attitude towards LMs and digital rhetorics is a fairly accurate one. The digital landscape, not unlike the “real” world, is one where access is broadly…
The other day I was watching video essays on YouTube as I far too often do and I came across a video on the channel Wisecrack called “Algorithms and the Death of Hollywood.” Within the video, Michael Burns notes a malady that has emerged within the entertainment industry and digital media. He argues, particularly of…
Han claims that digitalization derealizes the world (p. 47); as humans, we now interact less with physical objects and are more inclined to have technology solve our problems for us. I recall the physical things I used to have that I no longer feel interested in using. Growing up, I had about three hard copies…