Communicating with social media has never been easy or simple for me. Though I understand the technology (I can retweet, tag, Snapchat, edit a photo on Instagram, and make a photo album dedicated to my cats on Facebook), navigating the ethically fraught and entwined nature of my social, professional, and political identities is another matter. For example: I’ve ruined family relationships over political posts. I’ve wrestled with maintaining a professional identity while having the instantaneous ability to vent my frustrations. I’ve come off as condescending and overbearing while encouraging friends to be more thoughtful about the consequences of what they…
Author: Jialei Jiang
Kristin Ravel
I am Jialei Jiang, a PhD candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. My research areas of interest include digital rhetoric, new materialism, and multimodal pedagogy.