The RIDE Blog connects the ideas of avatar and identity with many different aspects of incarnation and affinities. The following entries went deep to unwrap the associations.
- Get Used to It: We are All Characters in a Hyperspace of Possibilities by Temitope Ojedele
- Racial Profiling Through Tech: How Tech Becomes the New Face of White Supremacy by Shuvro Das
- Collapsing to Compose, Composing to Collapse: Are Digital Griots Agents of Pluriversality? by Jenna Zan
- Rhythms Made to Rupture and Bodies Made to Break/Dance: What Happens When a DJ and a Douen Walk Into a (Crowded) Void? by Jenna Zan
- The Rise of Technofeminism as a part of resistance in Digital Space and Culture by Shuvro Das
- The Truman Show Embedded in our Reality of Smart Homes: Will We Be Held Captive Like Truman Burbanks? by Shuvro Das
- Kaleidoscopic Databaseology: Making Meaning of Knowledge Haunted and Corporeal by Molly Ryan
- DJs as Technical Communicators: The Rhetorical Synchronicity of Hip Hop Culture by Shuvro Das
- The “Transience” Nature of Selfies: Are they non-things? Hint- They Are Not! by Shuvro Das
- Digital philia by Molly Ryan
- Critically unmoored (or learning from a Yorkie) by Molly Ryan
- Crowded Zoo, Empty World by Jenna Zan
- Alpha Meets Millennial: Do People Still Eat at the Dinner Table? by Temitope Ojedele
- On the Metaphorization of Land and Conscious Digital Composing by Temitope Ojedele
- Storying Repair as Rhetorical Acts of Survivance by Temitope Ojedele
- Kintsugi Repair: Imperfections are Beautiful by Sahajiya Nath
- Beyond the Looking Glass of “Likes”: What a Move to the Country Taught Me About Context Collapse and Relational Repair by Jenna Zan
- Who am I ? Mark Zuckerberg and Identity Monolith by Sahajiya Nath
Here is just a glimpse—only five among MANY words that are being seen and used from different lights. They open innumerable possibilities. Consider this as a database and go ahead and read the entries for they offer narratives!

Repair (56)
- survivance
- ethics of care, defense, and reassurance
- acquiescence
- cultural re-education
- resistance to capitalism
- embracing imperfections
- healing
- sustainability

Space (30)
- a frame of reference
- domain
- tangible and intangible
- physical and digital
- “real” and artificial
- place
- third space
- possibility
- region

Social (27)
- social justice
- social change
- social media
- social aspect
- social science
- social theories
Digital (21)
- digital information
- digital habitus
- digital destiny
- digital design
- born digital
- digital product

DJs (21)
- digital griots
- technical communicators
- curators of stories
- rhetors
- canon makers
- change agents
- storytellers

Context (21)
- cultural root
- meaning to convention
- think as human
- scope
- specific location and/or time
- sense of belonging
- that shapes understanding about self and other
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