Watson 2018 Call for Reviews
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the Watson 2018 Conference. We are particularly interested in…
Availability Dereliction
Considering the wide horizon of digital rhetorics’ fu-fu-futures, I have settled in this entry on a speculative question…
I Hate My Voice
At the moment, I’m revising my first scholarly multimedia piece; the video highlights the way that women use…
Unintended Use and Digital Rhetoric
My son is almost one year old, and the question I get asked more than anything is, “What…
The Same As It Ever Was: Invention as the Future of Digital Rhetoric
Introduction This post is an extension of my previous work on Rodolphe Töpffer and the rhetorical histories of…
How to See the Forest for the Trolls: Studying Digital Rhetoric on Compromised Platforms
Content warning: References to sexual assault and online harassment As we consider digital rhetoric’s futures, I want to…
Look at me! Don’t look at me!
The digital turn (or revolution) writ large, digital rhetoric and writing studies in particular, necessitates an ongoing and…
DRC Chat: What Should Digital Rhetoric Be Interested In?
#DRCchat returned Tuesday, asking all our #digirhet folks to consider what digital rhetoric as a field should be…
Hypermediated Workscapes and the Digital Rhetorics of Personal Branding
Earlier this year, a committee member asked me how I envisioned the future of work and labor systems…
In (Partial) Defense of Algorithms
Defending the Digital There is a noticeable dystopic strand in digital rhetoric scholarship – a sense that we…
Back to the Future? Reflections on Digital Infrastructures
In many ways, I feel like I’m already living digital rhetoric’s future. Let me explain: I’ve been in…
Unhealthy Infrastructures
This past June, Charlie Warzel, a senior technology writer for BuzzFeed noted the prevalence of quote tweets in…
Introduction to Jialei Jiang
We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is…
Introducing Whitney Lew James
My path to digital rhetoric as a scholarly interest has been a long and winding one. I hand-coded…
Introducing Katie Walkup
Hi there! I’m Katie, and I’m excited to be working as a DRC fellow this year. Digital rhetoric…
Introduction: Angela Glotfelter
As kids, my siblings and I would often play Super Mario Bros. on the NES, blasting through the…