Presenters: Merideth Garcia (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse), Anna Knutson (East Tennessee State University), and Aubrey Schiavone (University of Denver) Respondent: Stacey Pigg (North Carolina State University) This panel explored how students engage with social media in academic, professional, and personal contexts. In addition to looking across these different contexts, each presenter discussed students with different academic and professional experiences, with a focus on high school students who had entered college (Garcia), first-generation college students in the workplace (Schiavone), and feminist college students (Knutson). The respondent, Stacey Pigg, provided connections she saw between these three presentations. As someone who uses social…
Author: Jessica Clements
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Jess Clements is Assistant Professor of English and Composition Commons Director at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA; she has served as Present Tense Style Editor since 2012. Her scholarship centers on ethos and the role of human and object-oriented actors in contemporary multimodal communication.