Last week, we reflected on the DRC Wiki Quest at Computers and Writing 2015. This week, we’re getting to know our winners and their experiences with the quest. We want to congratulate the three grand prize winners, Alyssa Hillary, Stephanie Vie, and Shelley Rodrigo, who completed the steps in the DRC Wiki Quest. We also want to congratulate all the other questers who participated in the DRC Wiki Quest and helped collaboratively build the resources of the DRC Wiki. First up, meet DRC Wiki Quest winner Stephanie Vie, who won as a grand prize a copy of On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies by Jonathan…
Author: Matthew Vetter
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VIsiting Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University Zanesville, Matthew Vetter earned his PhD from Ohio University in 2015, where he previously served as Assistant Director of Composition. His research and professional interests include digital rhetoric and humanities, writing program administration, and composition pedagogy. Vetter is a former Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Graduate Fellow and current editor of PraxisWiki, a section of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Check out his portfolio at mattvetter.net
The DRC is organizing an edit-a-thon for the DRC Wiki at Computers and Writing 2015. We’ll be sitting at a Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative table (Jarvis Science Hall Concourse) throughout the conference and presenting in session E2. If you want hands-on experience editing a wiki or an opportunity to examine classroom wiki activities, consider taking part in the DRC Wiki’s edit-a-thon during the Computers and Writing 2015 conference. How To Play Stop by our table (Jarvis Science Hall Concourse) to pick up a GameSheet DRC Wiki Handout and . The Handout provides instructions for registering and contributing to the DRC Wiki. The GameSheet (see below) helps you…
The idea for this assignment, taught in a junior-level composition/gender studies course at Ohio University, came to us while Gamergate was at its nadir. The loosely organized social media campaign attacked game developer Zoe Quinn and her Twine based game, Depression Quest, for its fundraising via the platform Patreon and because they felt–although this was proven to be false–that Quinn had received undo praise for the game because of her romantic involvement with a games journalist. At the heart of this attack was a construction of “gamer” as an essentialized identity; one that is male, socially conservative, and anti-feminist. The…
DRC’s Hack & Yack series is excited to welcome back guest contributors Justin Hodgson and Scot Barnett, co-coordinators of the Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium. This is the second in a 2-part series dedicated to IDRS. In this post, Hodgson and Barnett, co-coordinators of the conference, reflect back on the event in order to discuss impact and significance. As part of this series, the DRC is also publishing reviews of individual IDRS panels and presentations as we receive them. Check out reviews by Crystal Vankooten, Estee Beck, Kevin Brock, and Andrew Iliadis, or just stay tuned to the IDRS feed for upcoming review contributions. Post-IDRS15: Seeking…