Gideon Kwawukumey

I am Gideon Kwawukumey and first-year Ph.D. student of Rhetoric and Writing. As an emerging scholar, I am interested in translingual pedagogies in teaching first-year writing. In my formative years of teaching and research, I have realized that writing instruction needs to represent the voice and identities of 1st-year writers. In nudging for voices and identities, I intend to contribute to research that revitalizes monolingual and multilingual voices and dismantles UScentric ways of teaching first-year writing. In so doing, my research seeks to explore pedagogies that embrace all voices in a first-year multicultural writing class.

Digital Rhetoric as Rhetoric of Survivance in Embracing Social Justice and Inclusiveness of internalized and indigenous knowledge

Digital rhetoric is a negotiation of information—and its historical, social, economic, and political contexts and influences—to affect change of survivance (survival and resistance) in the network spaces. Despite the space being dominated by specific dominant cultures, scholars, both indigenous and internalized, of digital cultural rhetorics have responded with research methodologies and inclusive rhetorical paths of…

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Unveiling Multiplicities of Care and Community Support and its parallel with rhetorical ecologies

Odell’s How to Do Nothing gives a picture of attention economic climate that needs to be curtailed through resistance strategies anti-capitalistic approaches. In chapter four, “Exercise in Attention,” Odell indicates why exercising attention as a rhetorical tool is a necessity such that deep attention as a tool can reclaim and restore a person’s sense of personal sovereignty,…

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AI’s ability to compute the future is hanging! Will more rehydration be a panacea?

Clive’s idea that AI is thirsty can be witnessed in the unpredictability of AI in most contexts. In conditions where enough preamble and cues are not given to AI, its result production is questionable. It makes its chats skeletal by itemizing general points already established and premeditated information known to everyone. Gleaning from Han’s Non-things,…

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land-based rhetoric as a pedagogy

Using land-based literacy to understand how experiences are shaped by material and embodied interaction. Such evidence of land-based rhetorical work can be seen in the digital Samaritan project by Jim Ridolfo. The scholar works with and for the Samaritan community to increase access to their cultural patrimony through digitization. This digital work by Rudolfo was…

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Deep attention in teaching first-year writing

Hayles’ “Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes” in the context of teaching first-year can be used as a pedagogical tool to paying attention to students with neurodiverse needs. Crafting Writing prompts and fostering interactions in the kairotic space (classroom) demands deep attention from students and both teachers. This approach recognizes the diverse cognitive modes of learners,…

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Resisting the myths: Hashtags and Interactions as Tools of Decolonial Rhetoric

The use of social media platforms as a way of “living in the third space” (78) and digital rhetorical spaces to resist the attention economy. Odell (2017) sees attention economy as characterized by “racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, climate change denial, which are referred to as “myths and superstitions” with no basis in reality (p….

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A deep listening as a rhetorical tool

‘How to do Nothing’ promotes ‘deep listening’ as a rhetorical tool in resisting issues we are currently facing- unjust economic conditions, poor remuneration of workers, and fighting environmental problems. Stakeholders need to develop a ‘deep listening’ to the unjust systemic working conditions of employees in academic institutions. Drawing from Odell (2017), “When every moment is…

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The modern idea of productivity, a destruction of the ecosystem?

‘How to Do Nothing’ makes me reminisce on Ghana’s exploitation of natural resources by external powers. Advanced technologies used in capitalist production and refining of Ghana’s natural resources contribute to all forms of colonial systems of pollution in Ghana. For example, local industries, in partnership with foreign powers, adopt technologies that produce toxic byproducts and…

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Corporeality in Pixels: Striking a Balance in the Smartphone Age

Smartphones as digital teddy bears offer incredible connectivity and access to information but introduce elements that may contribute to a derealization of corporeality by altering how individuals perceive, interact with, and present their physical selves in the digital realm. The challenge is to find a balance that acknowledges the benefits of digital connectivity while preserving…

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