It comes as little surprise that I, having grown up with video games, or rather, on video games, ended up pursuing a specialization in digital rhetoric. Indeed, my master’s culminating project emphasizes various ways video games function as digital texts that simulate social experiences with situated meaning-making and elaborate rhetorical strategies. However, as a Teaching Associate, I scarcely have opportunities to deploy the theories and techniques I study. Luckily, my supervising professors allowed me to carve a small space in my College Composition class to pedagogically experiment with gaming. Our first course unit focused on how social and cultural cues…
Author: Jonathan Lee
Jonathan Lee
Jonathan is the self-proclaimed Leeviathan, the Eastwestern Spiral, and a jack-of-all-trades that seeks to become a gaming doctor. He currently attends Cal State L.A. as a master's student, a Teaching Associate, Co-Editor of Statement Magazine, and Creative Director of Significations. He is defined by his supportive family, brilliant friends, and outstanding teachers, and he will always be grateful to them.