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: Kevin Brock
Jonathan Lee
Kevin Brock is Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina, where he studies the rhetoric of software code and its development.