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• 1 media/Photo on 11-20-14 at 4.19 PM.jpg 2015-04-18T19:43:26-07:00 About the author 11 A brief bio on the author of this project media 2015-05-04T11:59:19-07:00 Dear Reader,   My name is Lucy Johnson and I am a first year PhD. student in Rhetoric and Composition at Washington State University . This project was completed as a final proposal for our graduate seminar titled Digital Methods, Theories and Practice. This course is 1 of 3 in order to obtain a graduate certificate in digital humanities and culture. Aside from the foundation for this proposal, I want to situate my interest in the digital humanities as a scholar who hopes to bridge the gap between Writing Program Administration and Digital Humanities, recognizing primarily visual rhetoric as a necessary discourse in which students use to compose and communicate within and outside of the composition classroom. With the ever advancing power of technology, this proposal aims to explore its benefits by looking specifically at SMS platforms and the ways in which emoji's are utilized to maintain and exert deliberate iterative rhetorical cultural practice. I see this proposal as an iterative foundation as I begin to merely scratch the surface of this inherently new visual communicative practice, understanding its use outside of the classroom in order to fully synthesize and understand the pedagogical affordances it offers within academia, using the classroom as a place for dialogue. 
  Prior to this project, I had no knowledge of how to use Scalar. It took me a solid weekend of viewing other projects composed in scalar, watching a tutorial video (repeatedly on Vimeo), and doing some trial and error before I felt like I really got the hang out Scalar. I would have loved to include and embed emoji's into how I composed this project but I found the coding for emoji's to be incredibly confusing. I hope to learn more about how to code and embed emoji's and include them as a form of composing within this project in its later stages (possibly as a part of my dissertation project). Overall I'm very pleased with my Scalar experience, I just wish I would have given myself more time to learn the software before diving into the actual composing process within the platform.  Thank you so much for taking the time to view my book. Any input or suggestions are always welcome. Lucy Johnson