As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as a returning DRC Fellow this year. In my first year, I learned how to engage different scholars and field leaders in sharing their projects with the greater community of digital rhetoric. This year, I got to experience another dimension of serving this field by encouraging junior scholars––graduate students and new faculty––to promote their emerging research and cutting-edge ideas through various events…
Author: Angela Glotfelter
Angela Glotfelter
Angela is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at Miami University of Ohio, where she researches how content creators deal with the effects of algorithms on their work.
ATLAS.ti offers various qualitative data analysis (QDA) solutions for researchers and students working with qualitative data. In this review, you’ll learn about how we have used two different ATLAS.ti products—ATLAS.ti desktop and ATLAS.ti Cloud (beta version)—a quick capabilities comparison of each, and their best uses for research and pedagogy. How Whitney used ATLAS.ti Desktop I first learned about ATLAS.ti during my research methods course when we received an introduction and demo on the software from Dr. Ricardo Contreras, one of ATLAS.ti’s senior trainers and an anthropologist and ethnographer. I was immediately struck by the software’s ability to annotate traditional text…
Online forums including mailing groups or listservs can be spaces where rising scholars like graduate students and junior scholars learn about the spirit of the field and contribute their emerging perspectives. Following a series of events on a major disciplinary listserv that made some graduate students feel disempowered, a group of young scholars decided to take back the forum and formed their own public channel, nextGEN. In this webtext, DRC Fellows Angela Glotfelter and Jason Tham share an interview with members of the nextGEN listserv start-up team where they share their motivations, missions, and observations about graduate student voices in…
As kids, my siblings and I would often play Super Mario Bros. on the NES, blasting through the first Mushroom Kingdom level to get to the “basement” and, eventually, to “water world” and to Bowser’s lair beyond. We’d also spend hours in my grandparents’ basement, where they had original Ms. Pac-Man and Crazy Kong arcade games. Those memories stand out as my introduction to digital media and rhetoric. While we don’t all often get the chance to sit down around the same console, my siblings and I still game together when we can, but we’ve now graduated to World of…