Bell (2018)

Author

Bell, K. W.

Year

2018

Title

“Growing Up in a World Like This”: Interpretations and Performances of Intersectional Parenthood in Telltale’s The Walking Dead

University

North Carolina State University

Discipline (uncoded)

Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media

Macrostructure

Traditional-Complex

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Modality, Practice, Rhetorical aims & strategy, Linguistic & Textual Form

Description and other notes

Multimodal. Explores different forms of autoethnography, including ‘interactive authoethnography.’ Uses Twine for the interactive authoethnography. Discusses limitations of a non-traditional dissertation and using Twine (so implication is that this is unusual as a tool). Discusses most academic writing as unsuitable for “game-making” (p. 14), so suggests that the writing for parts of this dissertation is different, but also not so different (draws on citations to connect to a “tradition” as well as use of method, auto-ethnography). Link to Microethnography (Twine): http://philome.la/krrris/a-new-world

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Connected. Atypical or unconventional component(s) positioned as critical or inextricable.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Intermingled. There is a sense of interdependence between the atypical or unconventional and written or conventional component(s) and a distinct understanding that they are a part of the same project. 

Notes/Reasoning

Multimodal dissertation that explores different forms of autoethnography, including ‘interactive authoethnography.’ Uses Twine for the interactive authoethnography. Organization of dissertation is as follows: Introduction, Interactive authoethnography (Twine), Microethnography (analogous to a standalone chapter, more or less follows IMRD), Qualitative content analysis (analogous to a standalone chapter, more or less follows IMRD), Conclusion. Link to Interactive autoethnography on Twine: http://philome.la/krrris/a-new-world

Discipline 2 (coded)

Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Discipline Grouping (coded)

SS

Source

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