Announcing the Second Annual DRC Book Prize!

by Naomi Silver February 11, 2014 Announcements

We are pleased to announce the second call for submissions for the UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric.  The prize, which is funded by the Sweetland Center for Writing, is awarded annually to an innovative and important book-length project that displays critical and rigorous engagement in the field of digital rhetoric. 

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Webtext Madness: What’s in a Name?

by Lindsey Harding March 6, 2014 Webtext-of-the-Month
What's in a Name?

Title: What’s in a Name? The Anatomy of Defining New/Multi/Modal/Digital/Media Texts
Author: Claire Lauer
Publisher: Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 17.1
Publication date: Fall 2012
Official Website: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/17.1/inventio/lauer/index.html

A screenshot from What’s in a Name? by Claire Lauer

I remember the first time I heard about webtexts and started browsing Kairos sometime after reading The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich and while in the middle of reading Janet Murray’s Inventing the Medium. 

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Webtext Madness: Device 6

by beccatarsa March 5, 2014 Webtext-of-the-Month

Title: Device 6
Publisher: Simgo
Publication date: October 2013
Official Website: http://simogo.com/games/device6/

A screenshot from the Device 6 narrative
Device 6 is an iOS game that blends text with images, gameplay with the novella form, to create something new. It requires you to both read closely and look closely to solve the many puzzles embedded in its surreal, thriller narrative.

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March Madness: Webtext Edition

by Lindsey Harding March 4, 2014 Webtext-of-the-Month
Hoop Dream

If you’re a college hoops fan, you’ve got to wait until March 17th for Selection Sunday and March Madness, but here at Sweetland DRC, we’re hosting our own.  Throughout March, we’ll be featuring webtexts like crazy.  The fellows will each be presenting their own picks, and we invite you to join us in our frenzy.

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The Computers and Writing Memorabilia Project: Mining the Past and Visualizing the Arc of our Discipline

by mday666 February 28, 2014 Blog Carnivals
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What were early digital rhetoricians thinking about more than two decades ago?
What did they present on, and what topics were trending, not only in yearly conferences, but also in online discussions?
Who were the major figures, and what were the projects they were working on?

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Why a Wiki?

by Lindsey Harding February 19, 2014 Blog Carnivals
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Over the past couple of weeks, the DRC fellows have been discussing the #DRCwiki they are starting to build to contribute to the field’s history and prepare for Computers and Writing 2014.  We wanted to share our email thread in hopes of furthering our conversation about wikis, histories, forms, and gestures. 

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