Transcript Episode 24

Many students can get stuck in the idea that college is just time spent waiting between high school and actual adulthood, confined only to completing coursework before heading off into the real world to get actual experience. But what if I told you there are plenty of opportunities already to get your voices heard? Hannah Benton, a UCF Writing & Rhetoric graduate who worked in the writing center, is here to clear up those misconceptions. Writing an Honors Undergraduate Thesis, “Fanfiction as a Reflection of Available Representation: A Critique on Mass Media,” and presenting it at Knights Write, UPenn’s National Research Conference, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication, instilled her with the confidence that has helped in pursuing her pedagogical interests.

It’s crucial for us writing students to recognize our value, so join us as we make a place in the conversation!

Time Stamps

· 00:07 - Intro

· 01:46 - Hannah’s Writing and Rhetoric History

· 11:09 - How Hannah Views Disability Studies

· 14:14 - Fan Culture and the Need for More Fan Studies

· 20:47 - Hannah’s Research/Problematic Disability Representation in Comics

· 36:04 - Fan Culture Influencing Mass Media

· 41:09 - Hannah’s Perspective When Tutoring/Teaching

· 46:51 - Allow Yourself to Take Up Space

Rhetorical Concepts

· 21:50 - Adrienne Raw, “Normalizing Disability: Tagging and Disability Identity Construction through Marvel Cinematic Universe Fanfiction”

· 31:42 - Narrative Prosthesis

· 37:50 - Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model

Transcript Episode 23

Internet comment sections can be a complex space for human interaction, to say the least. We’ve all been tempted by some particularly enraging user to throw on the virtual boxing gloves and engage in some rhetorical fisticuffs. But how can we best engage with the Wild West of the internet and its many algorithms as academic rhetoricians? Dr. Joel Bergholtz, currently teaching Composition I and II and ENC 4416 Writing in Digital Environments, is here to answer just that as we discuss his research into social media pedagogies, online circulation, LLMs, and if we’ve gone post-human.

It’s always important to re-evaluate our rhetorical understanding as the forms we communicate in evolve, so join us as we brave these uncharted waters together!

Time Stamps

· Introduction - 00:07

· Joel’s Goals: Compassion in Rhetoric - 02:09

· Context, Intent, and Bridging Ideologies - 07:30

· How Culture is Engaged with and Circulated Online - 16:42

o Are We Post-Human? - 23:46

o How Social Media Platforms are Run - 27:41

· "R-R-R-Reeeemixxxx” - 35:53

o How AI Retrieves Info - 43:43

o What Makes Productive Political Debate - 46:40

· Engaging with Rhetoric Going Forward - 50:14

· Closing Thoughts - 59:48

Rhetorical Concepts

· 05:38 - The Rhetorical Situation

· 15:37 - Doxa After Digitality

· 54:22 - “The Perils of Not Paying Attention,” “Made Not Only in Words”

· 1:00:24 - Doxa, Nicomachean Ethics, techne

Our guest for this episode is Dr. Esther Milu, Associate Professor here at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Milu’s research includes language diversity, multilingual pedagogies, translingual writing, immigrant Black literacies, and Global Black Rhetorics. Dr. Milu has been published in multiple publications, most recently including Composition Studies, Rhetoric Society of America Quarterly, and College Composition Communication, along with contributing to several books.