Author: Gavin P. Johnson

Gavin P. Johnson is a PhD student in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy at The Ohio State University. His major fields of study include Composition and Digital Media and Queer Rhetorics. In his current research, he uses the DALN to collect, preserve, and analyze the literacy narratives of Black Queer social activists of Columbus. He earned his MA in Rhetoric and Composition from NC State University in 2015, and he is originally from southeast Louisiana.

Panelists Kristin Arola, Washington State University Lucy Johnson, Washington State University Zarah Moeggenberg, Washington State University Review In A1: [Dis]Embodied Kairotic Composing: Snapchat, Indigenous Networks, and Queer Digital Migratory Analysis, presenters shared ideas from their ongoing research projects around social media practices and identity. Individually, each panelist contextualized an interest in their respective social media projects through their own identities. Collectively, this panel explored embodiment as a site of knowledge in digital spaces. In the first presentation, Lucy Johnson (@Mqtjuiced) shared results from a small study on the use of emoji in Snapchat. Invoking the work of Lisa Lebduska on…

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