Article Title

Letter from the Guest Editors: Putting Our Bodies on the Line: Towards a Capacious Vision of Digital Activism

Authors

Ben McCorkle, The Ohio State University at MarionFollow
Jason Palmeri, Miami UniversityFollow

Abstract

This is the editors' note to accompany the special issue on digital activism.

About the Author(s)

Ben McCorkle, Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University-Marion and the author of Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study, has long been interested in the effects of technological disruption on social and cultural structures—even back in the day when he was a quasi-gutter punk hanging out with the Foods Not Bombs kids in Athens, Georgia, designing Xerox flyers, mixing up batches of wheat paste, and filling five-gallon buckets full of hearty vegan goulash.

Jason Palmeri, Associate Professor of English at Miami University and author of Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy, is currently researching and practicing online video activism in queer counterpublics. As a Florida high school student in the early ‘90s, Jason once encircled Jeb Bush yelling, "Racist, Sexist, Anti-gay... Jeb Bush Go Away!" Sadly, this moment was not captured on digital media.

DOI

10.15760/harlot.2014.11.1

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39456

Creative Commons License

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Recommended Citation

McCorkle, Ben and Palmeri, Jason (2014) "Letter from the Guest Editors: Putting Our Bodies on the Line: Towards a Capacious Vision of Digital Activism," Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion: No. 11, 1.
https://doi.org/10.15760/harlot.2014.11.1