Apply to become a Sweetland DRC Graduate Fellow!
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently working in some area of digital rhetoric who…
Call for 2017 C&W Conference Reviews
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference. If you would…
Teaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election Wrap Up
At the end of our 2016 election year, we distributed a CFP that asked digital rhetoricians to consider…
Reading “the Stream”or The Open Access Book on Fact-Checking You’ve Been Looking For
As one who teaches research-focused first-year composition classes, the subject of online fact-checking, “fake news,” and information circulation…
Proceed with Confidence: Teaching Information Literacy in the Age of Fake News
As co-assistant directors of the first-year writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we have been privy to…
Affordances and Constraints of Data Visualization in Politics
Data can be a tricky animal when it comes to politics. One area that is particularly prone to…
Semiotics and Constructing Fake News
I recently started asking students to examine how creators of fake news use fragments of truth as a…
Post-Election Feminist Pedagogy: “What is (Your) Truth? Understanding Fake News and Digital Citizenship”
POSITIONING THE WORKSHOP In the spirit of feminist pedagogy, we would like to start by positioning ourselves: We…
Exploring the Rhetoric of Fake News through Twitter Hashtag Analysis
I share our collective concern with the circulation of misrepresentations and outright lies online, which has seen increased…
Reading Science News Rhetorically in the Age of Alternative Facts
That the media distorts scientific findings is not a new observation. As this PhD Comic suggests, there…
Foregrounding the Question
“I have to question the validity of everything now,” read a student’s comment in the course evaluations for…
Teaching Digital Rhetoric in the Age of Fake News: Media Literacy and Source Evaluation in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Fake news–the buzzword that makes composition teachers shudder–seems to be taking over our digital spaces. The prevalence of…
DRC Wiki Quest at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication
The DRC will be hosting a Wiki Quest for the DRC Wiki at the 2017 Conference on College Composition…
Human vs. Machine: Tracking Political Discourse Using Voyant
With the rising prevalence of data mining, surveillance analytics, and personally tailored user experience within our online navigation,…
Building Social Networking Sites for Social Good
In fall semester 2016, I taught an advanced web design course in the undergraduate Professional Writing program in…
Authoring Bubbles: Curation, Filter Bubbles, and Politics
Though I’ve been teaching students about filter bubbles for a few years now, the topic has gained visibility…