Remixing Reality: Youth’s Critical Rhetorical Attunement While Composing VR Games

• In Event: Writing in Digital Spaces

Abstract

Virtual Reality immerses players in an environment where movement, spatial awareness, and sensory feedback influence the experience. This study examines youth composing practices with VR games, focusing on how they played and designed digital compositions. Through a lens of embodied cognition, preliminary results show youth adopted meta-authorial stances and navigated multiple audiences during the process of composing, signaling a false dichotomy between production and consumption.

Authors

• Jenifer Jasinski Schneider, University of South Florida

• Leah Burger, University of South Florida

• James R King, University of South Florida