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Writing In The Moment: Social Media, Digital Identity, And Networked Publics, Jacob Babb

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

This article examines the impact of social media on digital identity. Social media reaffirms the values of communities through the repetition and reflection of those communities. The article addresses different examples of social media usage, such as the recent Internet outrage regarding Cecil the Lion, to explore the complexities of developing and maintaining digital identities.

Super Mom In A Box, Lindsey Harding

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Super Mom in a Box examines how Pinterest influences identity formation in mothers who interact with the site. In the essay, I use my own extensive interactions on Pinterest to investigate how the site's postfeminist content and interaction design create a hypermaternal identity for maternal interactors. This piece suggests that the celebration of domesticity and femininity on Pinterest validates a mother's home-oriented interests and reinforces her commitment to family; at the same time, this celebration contributes to a limited online identity for mothers, which can produce stress and alienation in real-world experiences of motherhood. In other words, because I've scrolled …

"And Then I Wrote Queerly Ever After...": A Performance, Madhu Narayan

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Closets come in all shapes and sizes, and coming out takes many different forms.

Clothes Make The Lesbian, Carrie Kosicki

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

Whoever said clothes don't make the (wo)man never went to a junior high dance...

I'M Not Really A Chaplain; I Just Play One To Pay The Bills, Jodi Kushins

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

She almost missed her calling. A new chaplain's story of how a major career shift has led to rhetorical insights and spiritual play.

“Phonesex : A Digital Collage” And “Dis|Orientation : A Straight Closet”, Jonathan Alexander

Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion

As a scholar in rhetoric and composition and a media artist, I am primarily interested in exploring how people compose with digital technologies, as well as what these compositions mean for their many and varied senses of self, individually and collectively. I also work at the intersection of writing studies and sexuality studies, exploring what it means to "compose queerly," as well as what theories of sexuality, particularly queer theory, have to teach us about literacy in pluralistic democracies. These interests permeate the two digital compositions that Harlot has graciously agreed to publish.

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