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Created in 2006, Twitter is a social information platform specifically designed to encourage brevity and wide-ranging networks. Twitter was inspired by the brevity of the coded language taxi dispatchers use to communicate with each other. Neither blogging … Read more... “Digital Lesson – Twitter and Storify”
Month: May 2014
Last week, I met and chatted with Dr. Robert Cummings over Skype. Dr. Cummings earned his Ph.D. in English in 2006 from the University of Georgia where he focused on the intersection between Rhetoric and Composition and digital technology. He … Read more... “Durable Writing for a Public Audience, an Interview with Dr. Robert Cummings”
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for Computers & Writing 2014 sessions. We have enjoyed having many contributors in the past two years and hope many of our readers would be willing to write a session review … Read more... “Call for C&W 2014 Conference Reviewers”
The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is continuing to celebrate our efforts to build a digital rhetoric wiki and 20 years of wiki with another Wiki Wednesday post. Today, we’re looking at research into academic interactions with the world-famous Wikipedia, the … Read more... “Academic Opinions of Wikipedia”