Lacey

Last name: Lacey
Position: Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric and Composition
Website: http://www.kimberlylacey.com
Brief Bio: I am entering my sixth (and final!) year in the PhD program in English (rhetoric/composition) at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Currently, I'm finishing up the last chapter of my dissertation, Making Memory, and plan to defend in March '11. My dissertation examines new venues for creating digital memory with specific focus on how these new spaces can be persuasive and rhetorical. More specifically, because the frequency of portable and user-friendly technologies in the marketplace will continue to increase dramatically, there is a growing need in academia to critically engage with such devices. As a rhetorician, I look at information technologies as a way to promote persuasive techniques by expanding the possibilities to form new sites of argumentation, to understand issues from several perspectives, and to communicate more efficiently and effectively through the technologies themselves. I have been conferencing and writing, conferencing and writing, and conferencing and writing some more about memory, rhetoric, and interactive technologies over the past few years. This is my second year as a HASTAC Scholar, and I'm thrilled to be involved once again.

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