2021-2022 was an exciting year for the Sweetland DRC Fellows. As their fellowship draws to a close, our six fellows offer reflections on their experiences and projects. This year’s cohort continued to focus on themes of accessibility, ethics, and activism, along with several other topics within the field of digital rhetoric. Our blog carnival explored emerging perspectives on new media technologies, and a new teaching materials page was created to showcase crowd-sourced classroom activities, texts, and prompts. In addition, our fellows created a new podcast, the DRC Talk Series, which features prominent scholars currently working in the field of digital…
Author: Alyse Campbell
Alyse Campbell, Laura McCann, Laura Leigh Menard, Courtney A. Mauck, Laken Brooks, Jennifer Burke Reifman, Sarah Hughes
Alyse is a PhD student 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 Asian American rhetoric.
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research in some area 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. Typical projects may include: coordinating a blog carnival, extending the DRC wiki, enhancing the resources section of the website, or taking part in editorial activities associated with DRC publishing. Fellows may also participate in regular team meetings to collaborate and receive feedback on their research and projects in progress. International Fellows’ contributions may be personalized to observe relevant visa…
Speakers: Alexis Walston, Rachel Stroup, Erin Green (University of Maryland) This panel was facilitated by three Ph.D. students at the University of Maryland who discuss their experiences teaching courses themed around digital activism. Their main focus was how to ethically engage students in digital rhetoric spaces – including social media – and the speakers drew upon their own lesson plans and reflections. All of these instructors worked to establish a baseline of what digital rhetoric and digital activism is, since these definitions are ever-changing. The first panelist was Alexis Walston, who shared their experience teaching the course, English 294: Persuasion…
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative (DRC) Graduate Fellows are graduate students currently doing research in some area 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. Typical projects may include: coordinating a blog carnival, extending the DRC wiki, enhancing the resources section of the website, or taking part in editorial activities associated with DRC publishing. Fellows may also participate in regular team meetings to collaborate and receive feedback on their research and projects in progress. International Fellows’ contributions may be personalized to observe relevant…