[Digital_humanities] DHX Presents "On (Hacking) The Human Soul": A Talk by Dalton Salvo

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The Digital Humanities Exchange<https://sites.uci.edu/dhexchange/> presents:

On (Hacking) The Human Soul: A Theory of Virtual Rhetorical Ontology and Ecology

a presentation by Dalton Salvo

Wednesday April 13th  |  11AM

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In this presentation, UCI English Ph.D. candidate Dalton Salvo will explore the necessity of critically understanding how virtual environments operate rhetorically. He will evaluate the range of their pedagogical possibilities by working through a specific example drawn from the relatively recent AAA game developed by Rockstar Games: Red Dead Redemption 2. In so doing, he hopes to demonstrate that employing a humanistic perspective to analyze virtual world design and players’ experiences of them discloses the ways how a virtual experience can transform players' perceptions of events that occur in physical reality.

This presentation will be moderated by Sam Carter, DHX Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Visual Studies.

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Breakroom (as illustrated above) can serve as a cost-effective method of supplementing virtual learning by mimicking the in-person classroom experience through creating navigable spaces for students to engage within.


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Dalton Salvo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English Literature emphasizing in Critical Theory and Rhetoric at UCI. His current research examines how virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies function rhetorically and phenomenologically to induce cooperation in users. The end goal of his theoretical research is to practically apply it in the creation of a literature and composition course designed from the ground up for and held entirely in virtual reality. To that end, his current research focuses on New Media Studies, Phenomenology, Philosophy, and Rhetorical Ecologies.


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