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Writing with Pixels: First-Year Writing and the Social Media Landscape

Writing with Pixels: First-Year Writing and the Social Media Landscape

Christie L. Daniels
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 11
ISBN13: 9781466647572|ISBN10: 1466647574|EISBN13: 9781466647589
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4757-2.ch012
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Daniels, Christie L. "Writing with Pixels: First-Year Writing and the Social Media Landscape." Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, edited by Marohang Limbu and Binod Gurung, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 217-227. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4757-2.ch012

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Daniels, C. L. (2014). Writing with Pixels: First-Year Writing and the Social Media Landscape. In M. Limbu & B. Gurung (Eds.), Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization (pp. 217-227). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4757-2.ch012

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Daniels, Christie L. "Writing with Pixels: First-Year Writing and the Social Media Landscape." In Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, edited by Marohang Limbu and Binod Gurung, 217-227. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4757-2.ch012

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Abstract

As a result of the features available on social media, users are able to present an up-to-the-minute picture of who they believe they are, what they are all about, and what gets their attention to the world in a remarkably savvy way. These sites enable students to practice concepts such as agency, situatedness, and constraints as well as gain experience with visual rhetoric itself. This chapter argues that the ability of instructors to tap this voluntary rhetorical activity and channel it into academic endeavors is of critical importance to creating new pedagogies to teach a new generation of rhetorically aware citizens.

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