{"id":37,"date":"2013-10-12T02:31:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dh\/blog\/2013\/10\/12\/aaron-toscano\/"},"modified":"2015-02-04T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:21:59","slug":"aaron-toscano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/blog\/projects\/aaron-toscano\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Toscano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p>Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication\/Writing, Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture Studies, New Media Video Game Studies<\/p>\n<h3>Research Projects<\/h3>\n<h4>Current<\/h4>\n<h5>In Progress<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Cultural History of Videos Games (1980-2004)<\/li>\n<li>Service Learning, Hegemony, and American Exceptionalism: Motivations behind why our pedagodies are &#8220;good&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Conference Presentations<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Not-so-Alternative Families: A look at heteronormativity on Television<\/li>\n<li>Outsourcing Technical Writing: Multiple Technical Writing Futures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Past<\/h4>\n<h5>Book<\/h5>\n<p>Marconi&#8217;s Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology<\/p>\n<h5>Articles<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Tony Soprano as the American Everyman and Scoundrel:How The Sopranos (re)Presents Contemporary Middle-Class Anxieties.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEnacting Culture in Gaming: A Video Gamer\u2019s Literacy Experiences and Practices.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUsing I, Robot in the Technical Writing Classroom: Developing a Critical Technological Awareness.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRethinking Online Space: Encouraging Student Immersion for Online and Hybrid Courses.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cExperimenting with Multimodality.\u201d Multimodal Composition: Resources Book for Teachers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Teaching Projects<\/h3>\n<h4>Current<\/h4>\n<p>I teach a course called &#8220;Information Design and Digital Publishing.&#8221;<br \/>\nI want to incorporate more multimodal assignments into my classes&#8211;having students use video, audio, images, and text to convey an argument.<\/p>\n<h4>Past<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication\/Writing, Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Popular Culture Studies, New Media Video Game Studies Research Projects Current In Progress Cultural History of Videos Games (1980-2004) Service Learning, Hegemony, and American Exceptionalism: Motivations behind why our pedagodies are &#8220;good&#8221; Conference Presentations Not-so-Alternative Families: A look at heteronormativity on Television Outsourcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[56],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/dast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}