Memes are defined by Heidi Huntington in her article “Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream” as “still images that are appropriated from popular culture and news media and remixed by individuals to include additional textual or visual commentary” (qtd. from Milner, 2013). These images mixed with words are especially powerful because their adaptation of popular culture to comment on social issues is condensed in time and space: memes are concentrated messages that index meaning. Design is not just a compilation of “‘visual tricks’ that may give poorly thought out writing an appealing wrapper,” (411) as quoted by Cheryl Ball…
Author: Mary Le Rouge
Mary Le Rouge
Mary Le Rouge is a second-year doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition at Kent State University. Her research interests include digital rhetoric and discourse studies, especially in relation to climate change, technical communication, and literacy.
Speakers: Liz Cozby (Texas Woman’s University), Soyeon Lee (University of Houston), and Lisa Phillips (Texas Tech University) Chair: Kevin Brock (University of South Carolina) The Disaster Rhetorics session at CCCC (H.28, Friday, March 15, 11am-12:15pm) brought together three scholars who are studying the rhetorical action that surrounds environmental crisis. Soyeon Lee, “Writing (in) a Flooded City: Enacting Georhetorical Performance by Undertaking Oral History” Soyeon Lee, a graduate student from the University of Houston, began the session with a thoughtful overview of her experiences teaching in Houston following Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall on August 26, 2017, bringing catastrophic flooding to…