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…
Author: John Paul Dela Rosa
John Paul Dela Rosa
John Paul Obillos Dela Rosa is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Northern Illinois University (NIU). His research investigates how information spreads within multimodal ecologies, specifically on platforms like TikTok. His broader research interests include topics on digital rhetoric, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), World Englishes, English Language Teaching (ELT), and Postcolonial Theories. In 2019, he participated in the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program where he taught Tagalog as a world language at NIU.