Sample Work: Reading Engagement Presentation

Digital Nostalgia.pdf

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This project is a short reading-engagement presentation I created to share a course reading with my seminar. The presentation works through Boyle, Brown, and Ceraso’s “The Digital: Rhetoric Behind and Beyond the Screen” and focuses on how the authors reframe the digital as an ambient, multisensory, and infrastructural condition rather than a screen-bound medium.

Rather than summarizing the article exhaustively, the presentation isolates key concepts that felt generative for discussion, including ambient digitality, multisensory rhetoric, sunken suasion, transduction, and infrastructures of being. The goal was to translate a dense theoretical text into an accessible conceptual map that could support shared conversation and critical engagement.

As a teaching artifact, the project reflects my approach to reading engagement and instructional design. I prioritize clarity, visual organization, and conceptual synthesis, using presentation as a way to surface why a text matters and how it connects to larger questions about rhetoric, technology, embodiment, and epistemic authority.

This presentation also intersects with my ongoing interests in digital bodies, invisible governance, and the rhetorical work performed by infrastructures that operate beneath everyday perception.