Shuvro Das

My name is Shuvro Das. I completed my M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition from Washington State University. I currently am a first-year Phd Student of Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech. I teach college writing for freshmen students. My research interests include pedagogies, Technical and Professional Writing, Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Disability Studies and Digital Technology and Culture. As a researcher and a young academician, my current research focuses on implementing antiracist pedagogy on FYC and TPW classrooms. I am interested in learning more about how we can use rhetoric to do better things for society. I like stories, hiking and music. I consider myself a humble polymath.

On Cognitive Dispersion: The Shift from Deep Attention to Hyper Attention in The Digital Age 

The rise of digital technologies has deeply shaped how people, especially youths, attend to information and tasks. Katherine Hayles makes a profound argument that the extensive use of digital technologies catalyzes a generational shift in cognitive modes and capacities. She explains that deep attention refers to the sustained, rigorous focus on a single object, text,…

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Collective Rewilding: What does Broken World thinking entail?

In “Rethinking Repair,” Steven J.Jackson(2014) says: “what happens when we take erosion, breakdown, and decay, rather than novelty, growth, and progress, as our starting points in thinking through the use of nature?” (p. 221). Our curatorial approach departs from the assumption of a world in flux, defined by uncertainty, fragmentation, and impermanence. Rather than see…

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The Truman Show Embedded in our Reality of Smart Homes: Will We Be Held Captive Like Truman Burbanks?

        The concept of smart homes as modern panopticons and surveillance mechanisms is a thought-provoking perspective that raises concerns about the privacy and security implications of connected technologies within our living spaces. Han (2022) says that Google presents the interconnected smart home of the future as an “electric orchestra” with the resident as a “conductor” (5)….

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Dataism as a Religion and an Exodus from Humanism : The Martyrs and Prophets    

Dataism posits that the universe operates as a network of data flow, wherein humans function as organisms driven by biochemical algorithms, and machines rely on electronic algorithms. Both these systems are viewed as algorithms, highlighting their fundamental similarity.  According to this perspective, intuition is subjective, and the growing influence of big data could render it…

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Memory Is Not Additive, But Narrative 

he critical to post-human approach is based on the concept that memory is not additive, rather narrative: memories shape a changing story, while digital mediums operate only by storing data. Accumulation and addition, characteristic of digital data, displace the narrative essence of memory. Only narratives can imbue meaning and endure. The digital realm, governed by…

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DJs as Technical Communicators: The Rhetorical Synchronicity of Hip Hop Culture 

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…

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The Truman Show Embedded in our Reality of Smart Homes: Will We Be Held Captive Like Truman Burbanks?

The concept of smart homes as modern panopticons and surveillance mechanisms is a thought-provoking perspective that raises concerns about the privacy and security implications of connected technologies within our living spaces. Han(2022) says that Google presents the interconnected smart home of the future as an “electric orchestra” with the resident as a “conductor” (5). I…

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The Rise of Technofeminism as a part of resistance in Digital Space and Culture

– In Computer and Composition, technofeminism has emerged to critique the historical domination of male figures in the domain of digital spaces, technology and culture, which were inherently biased against women. The hegemonic designs and definitions of technology often limit women as eternal outsiders in that very realm and perpetuate harmful stereotypes as technologically challenged/inferior…

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