While I recieved my BA from Cal State University Long Beach in English Literature, my tastes have drifted away from Ralph Waldo Emerson and moved more towards Richard Lanham and Susanne Langer. My true obsession with rhetorical analysis and investigations into how the mind composes in different platforms began when I started working at the WSU writing center in Spring 2003 (which provoked me to apply to the Rhet/Comp graduate program here at WSU). Working with so many different students at the writing center who had such diverse composing and (ineffective and effective) rhetorical strategies cultivated a fascination for composition pedagogy and rhetorical research.
Nonetheless, I have found it difficult to focus my interests. I tend to be most preoccupied with the relationships between digital technology and rhetoric. My masters project was devote to digital composing communities, specifically regarding ipod playlists and the writing portfolios. I am attracted mainly to what Susanne Langer considers 'non-discursive' modes of communication; and I love contrasting the discursive and the non-discursive. Hence, I wish to expand my previous research to investigate the internet and video games as sites where communities non-discursively and discursively interact.
That brings me to this class: I am generally and specifically interested in this course because it contrasts non-dominant zones with EuroAmerican zones that dominate technological interfaces (Microsoft, macintosh, myspace, etc.). I mean, I really want to address the question of how contrastive rhetorics influence digital technologies. Bring it On!
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