Dr. Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics at the University of Florida, discusses the methods she uses in her own research. Dr. Gonzales specializes in user experience, technical communication, and multi-lingual digital tools and technologies. Scholars and Works Mentioned/Discussed Transcript of the interview.
Author: Laura McCann
Laura Leigh Menard, Laura McCann
Laura McCann is a Rhetoric PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University working within the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and digital rhetorics. Her current project studies master narratives of infertility and the rhetorical strategies patients employ to make sense of these disruptive medical experiences.
In this limited run podcast, DRC fellows, Laura McCann, a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, and Laura Leigh Menard, a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Bowling Green State University, sit down with digital rhetoricians to talk in depth about their research methods and methodologies. The goal for this podcast is to provide nitty gritty details about how leading and innovative scholars in the fields of rhetoric, composition, and technical communication do their work. Their interviews dig into how these scholars define and understand digital rhetoric projects, how they go about identifying and then collecting…
My interest in digital rhetorics began when I worked in digital marketing before I returned to graduate studies. After completing my BA, I spent six years working on digital teams to create platforms and content for online spaces. While the work itself left me searching for more thought-provoking pursuits (hence grad school), I remained curious about the rhetorical ecologies that form online. In particular, I was drawn to the ways that discourse, feelings, and arguments intra-act online. Put another way, I found myself continually asking how feelings, as experienced in the body and as described discursively, function as people come…