Makerspaces and Writing Ecosystems in a Two-Year College (1/2)
The 2016 Blog Carnival of Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative presented reflections on the emergent maker movement and its…
Get Involved with the DRC at CCCC 2020! [Update: Cancelled]
UPDATE: Due to the health and safety concerns around COVID-19, the CCCC Executive Committee has cancelled this year’s…
Google Analytics and its Exclusions
Methods of big data analysis have helped enterprises better understand their users and the market, and to make…
Trans* Technical Communication
Dr. Avery C. Edenfield Assistant Professor Technical Communication and Rhetoric Utah State University I am part of a…
Environmental Justice and Online Garden Exchange
In the summer of 2018, I started a perennial pollinator garden in my backyard. Growing plants is a…
Digital Sharing and Mental Health: Toward Awareness
Universities are grappling with a mental health crisis that is not disconnected from digital developments (Degges-White and Borzumato-Gainey…
‘I Do This For Us’: Thinking Through Reciprocity & Researcher-Community Relationships
The beauty of Black digital spaces lies in the work that takes place within and between the communities…
Online Place-Making in Virtual Communities: Digitizing Indigenous Resistance
Global resistance movements for today’s Indigenous communities are well attuned to the geopolitical terrain of sovereignty as one…
My Algorithmic Community: Considering the Role of Personalizing Algorithms in Online Community Formation
On October 31, 2019, I received some of the happiest news I’d received in a while: after a…
Decentering the Classroom: Distributed Expertise as Social Justice Praxis in First Year Composition
For the past few semesters, my first-year composition students and I have participated in an ongoing, continuous digital…
The Disability March as a Meta-Cyberprotest
Almost three years since the Women’s March on Washington set records for the largest single-day protest in U.S.…
Running as Quiet Activism
Until 1972, women were not allowed to officially compete in running marathons. Today, 45.7% of American marathon participants…
Digital Activism: Strategic, Inessential, and Inenarrable Alliances for an Ethical and Political Imperative
After my panel presentation at #4C2019 on “Critical Digital Archiving Against the Grain: Precarities, Negotiations, and Possibilities,” one…
World Interaction Design Day Event Report on Gendered AI
September 24 is World Interaction Design Day. It is an annual event where people who are interested in…
#sneckdown: A Digital Community Using Snow to Combat Poor Urban Design
Each winter, a layer of snow envelops various cities across the planet. While most view the snow as…
Introduction to Wilfredo Flores
This piece of writing started in my apartment, which sits on a little hill. Rabbits and chipmunks live…