Speaker: Jason Tham, Texas Tech University This year’s keynote address was given by Jason Tham, Assistant Chair and Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric and Texas Tech University. Tham’s talk was titled, “Whose Time is It, Anyway?” and explored who truly benefits from AI usage when it is used to save time. Attendees left this talk with a nuanced overview of the ways in which time is impacted by the creation, maintenance, and usage of AI as well as ways to incorporate deliberate slowness into their writing practices. Tham explored the pedagogical, temporal, and physical aspects of labor and…
Author: Alyse Campbell
Alyse Campbell
Alyse is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program for English and Education and the Graduate Administrative and Editorial Associate for the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Her research interests include digital writing pedagogy, digital discourse, and community-engaged writing.
The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative invites graduate students to apply for our 2025-26 fellowship! Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research in areas of digital rhetoric who seek professional development experience in online publishing with a major university press and a website that serves the community of Computers and Writing. Fellows will be selected by the DRC co-directors and advisory board and will receive an annual award of $1000 and recognition on the DRC website. Applications will be accepted until July 1st. The Fellowship is for one year (September-August), with the possibility of renewal for one…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2025 Computers and Writing Conference (May 15th-18th, Athens, GA) If you would like to be a session reviewer for C&W 2025, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a session to review. After you sign up, you will receive an email with information about submitting a session review draft. You will be asked to provide information about the session and a short bio for yourself. We are particularly interested in conference reviews pertaining to digital rhetoric, though you are welcome to propose your own session to review. Reviews…
What’s New at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative? We hope that you are having a great start to the academic year! We’re excited to share some updates on what has been happening and what’s coming up at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC)! Announcements We’ve welcomed four new DRC Advisory Board members this summer: Janine Butler, Nupoor Ranade, Jason Tham, and Ja’La Wourman! We’re thrilled to introduce these new advisory board members along with our current board members: Antonio Byrd, Douglas Eyman, Laura Gonazales, Derek Mueller, and Jentery Sayers. You can learn more about each of the advisory board members…