In the NCTE article, “Teaching with Technology in 100 Years of ‘English Journal’”, McCorkle and Palmeri make several points about the benefits of media in pedagogy that reminded me of my own attempts to “reinvigorate student engagement with print texts.” In 2015, my students read a graphic memoir called “Ghetto Brothers: Warrior to Peacemaker” about…

In James Zappen’s paper on digital rhetoric, he makes note of some strategies that online communities use to promote self-expression and collaboration. In it, Barbara Warnick explains the success of “Web-based alternatives to mainstream media” offering “new modes of interacting with others”. This was in contrast to the unsuccessful attempts by traditional print media to…