Care Ethics: Meeting Your Parents for the First Time
In his book Provocations of Virtue: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing, John Duffy explores the role…
Design Advocacy, Folklore, and Designing Multimodal Documents
As teachers, scholars, writers, and community members, document design plays an important role in our daily work. How…
How 4 Memes Pose Environmental Debate: Lessons for Design Advocates
Memes are defined by Heidi Huntington in her article “Pepper Spray Cop and the American Dream” as “still…
Teaching poster design as graphic advocacy
I teach in a communications department that emphasizes critically-informed digital literacy, social justice, and civic engagement. Many courses…
Exploring Social Advocacy Through Community-engaged, Public-facing Technical Communication
When I learned I would be teaching an asynchronous, online section of Advanced Technical Writing at the University…
(Re)Animating Queer Life(after?)Death:Queer/ing Multimodality and/as Practicing Mourning
Content warning: This post will explore topics relating to anti-queer violence and death. In Digital Death: Mortality and…
Designing for Ethos: Katharine Hayhoe’s Climate Change Advocacy
Katharine Hayhoe has impressive academic credentials. As a climate scientist, she has 125 peer-reviewed publications and serves as…
Critical Design Rhetorics of Digital Democracy: A Course Design for Informed Dissent and Design Advocacy
Image created by Matthew V. Jacobson Introduction A few months ago, I gave myself a challenge: design a…
Promoting Linguistic Diversity in Community-Centered Multimodal Design
How can language diversity be centered through multimodal design and community-centered technical communication work? And what can that…
Digital Advocacy in Digital Rhetoric & Literacy: Part II
This is the second of two posts detailing digital advocacy projects created by master’s students in a Digital…
Digital Advocacy in Digital Rhetoric & Literacy: Part I
Designing the Course: Kristi’s Project How does the digital change what we know about and how we practice…
ATLAS.ti: Desktop and Cloud-based Coding Software
ATLAS.ti offers various qualitative data analysis (QDA) solutions for researchers and students working with qualitative data. In this…
A Showcase of Digital Praxis Posters (DPP) at CCCC 2019
The Digital Praxis Posters sessions (sponsored by 7Cs) have become a staple event at the annual Conference on…
Session C.25: Authenticating Pedagogies and Performing 21st-Century Literacies: Disrupting Digital Praxis, Social Media Data Analytics, and Multimodal Composition
Presenters: Kendra Andrews (North Carolina State University) and Ragan Glover-Rijkse (North Carolina State University) *One of the scheduled presenters…
Session I.13: Digital Bodies, Digital Disability: Performing Health Online
Presenters: Rebecca Hudgins (The Ohio State University), L. Corrine Jones (University of Central Florida), and Emily Mattern (Northeast…
Session C.09: “It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times”: A Tale of Two Approaches for Developing and Implementing Online and Hybrid Composition Courses
Presenters: Ariel Goldenthal (George Mason University), Jessica Matthews (George Mason University), and Jennifer Messier (George Mason University) Three…