173: Hannah Hopkins

Keywords: Digital Rhetorics, Infrastructure, Digital Writing, Sensory Rhetorics, Pedagogy. Hannah Hopkins is a PhD Candidate in Rhetoric & Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research engages the material infrastructures of digital writing, extending from the personal device to the vast landscapes of server farms and data centers that support and circulate digital texts. Her work offers that rhetoric’s multimodal, more-than-visual sensing practices help us attune to the fundamental extractivist logics of all writing and the ethical and pedagogical dilemmas that result. Hannah’s research and reviews are published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Communication Design Quarterly, and elsewhere. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.