Planners as Feminist Technology
On the recording, there’s a heavy thunk, then the sound of objects scattering. I had just asked my…
Browsing: Conversations
Creating Decolonial Spaces of Puerto Rican Activism on Facebook
The hours, days, weeks, and months following hurricane María have been marked by a deep anxious sorrow for…
Adopting Critical Ethical Practices in Research on Gender and Embodiment
My dissertation research uses queer rhetoric as a lens for analyzing and studying moments of queering gender norms…
Openness, Theories of Writing, and Coding Robots
At the Maker Faire in Fall 2016 my son and I played with various toys designed to encourage…
The Body Image: Selfies, SkinneePix, and Our Malleable Digital Bodies
What are we to make of the “self” captured in a “selfie”? If one is both author and…
The rhetoric and technology of collaboration: How digital technologies transform our collaborative work and pedagogy
Background In this collection, four graduate scholars investigate a suite of collaborative technologies, namely join.me, Facebook Messenger, Scalar,…
WebEx: Flexible video conferencing for large-group collaboration
This tool is a video conferencing platform by CISCO. It is a flexible platform that operates on a…
Facebook Messenger: Distraction or collaborative tool?
As Facebook’s designated chat application, Facebook Messenger garnered 1.2 billion active users in April 2017, adding 200 million…
Scalar: Open-source authoring for born-digital scholarship
Scalar is defined as an open source publishing platform designed to make born-digital scholarship easy for authors (Scalar).…
join.me: A collaborative mainstay in industry with potential uses in transformative, ecologically minded collaborations
join.me is an online meeting platform that provides desktop and mobile conferencing and screencasting abilities (PC Magazine, 2017).…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions—Material and Digital Rhetorics: Openings for Feminist Action
Within Composition and Rhetoric, feminist rhetoricians have investigated the intersection of technology and pursuits of social equality. Their…
Introduction to Jason Tham
My views and evaluation of digital rhetoric are rooted in the practices and disciplines through which I have…
Introduction to Lauren Brentnell
As a queer academic and a trauma survivor, digital spaces have often been my go-to areas for support,…
Introduction to Lauren Garskie
I feel as if my story is one that many of us in graduate school (or many of…
Carleigh Davis Introduction
My interest in digital writing first began when I was an undergraduate, convinced that I would finish my…
Collaborating on the DRC Wiki: Summer Class on Social Justice through Technical Communication on the Mexico/U.S. Borderland
By: Laurie Garcia, Aaron Goulette, Lionell Manlutac, Shelly Mansfield, Sam Mata, J. Sonya Patino, and Laura Gonzales In…