Hi! Mabuhay! My name is John Paul, but feel free to call me JP. I am truly excited to start this professional journey with the fellows and mentors at the Gayle Morris Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC).
For my introduction, I decided to draw inspiration from my work with short-form videos on social media platforms like TikTok. I was also inspired by the wonderful vlogs created by my students in our Rhetoric and Composition class that focused on multimodal storytelling. Beyond print, I believe that other semiotic modes, such as colors, sounds, images, transitions, and animations add layers of rhetorical resonance to the meanings we wish to convey. Just like my students, I also enjoyed creating this video for all of you.
From CRT to FYP Explained
From Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) to For You Page (FYP) is a quick trip down memory lane, capturing how I became invested in digital technologies, social media platforms, and digital rhetoric. The video celebrates how my high school curriculum contributed to my interest in digital scholarship. It also highlights how Friendster and Facebook helped me become appreciative and critical towards social media’s affordances and constraints. Finally, the video shares how my experiences shaped my pedagogy and research as an advocate for the teaching of media and information literacy and sustainable ways to addressing disinformation in multimodal ecologies.
I really hope this video helps you get to know me better. Please enjoy and feel free to drop a comment or leave a reply.
You can connect with me via email at jdelarosa1@niu.edu or learn about my work on my Google Scholar and Edutopia pages. Let us connect on Facebook, too!
Maraming salamat! (Thank you very much).
P.S. You may turn off the closed captions on the video, as subtitles are already provided 😊
