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: Avery Edenfield
Jason Tham, Jialei Jiang, Adrienne Raw, Whitney Lew James, Lauren Garskie, Angela Glotfelter, Katie Walkup
Avery Edenfield is an assistant professor of rhetoric and professional writing at Utah State University. His research agenda works at the intersections of technical and public rhetorics with attention to the technical writing strategies marginalized communities employ for self-advocacy.
Discussions from this mini-workshop culminated in a Digital Ethics Manifesto (Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, 2019), which is reproduced here. The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Fellows consider this manifesto a living document, and welcome your comments, revisions, or suggestions for further reading. We forward… 1. Honest and transparent communication of digital risks Instructors who deploy public facing assignments should discuss with students the risks and rewards of online involvement/participation in certain discourse communities. Instructors need to determine the appropriate degree of exposure to protect students from online harassment. Instructors should introduce appropriate research methods and processes to help students navigate ethical, social, historical,…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for and usability testers during the 2019 Computers and Writing conference at Michigan State University. Panel Reviewers If you would like to be a reviewer for this year’s Computers & Writing conference, please visit our Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a keynote or panel session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may not have been present at the conference. Keynote or panel reviewers attend sessions and write brief reviews (300-1000 words) in written text or other…
#DRCchat returned Tuesday, asking all our #digirhet folks to consider what digital rhetoric as a field should be interested in. Broadly, we are interested in four main areas: People, Literacy, Tools, and Concepts. People: digital citizenship, community, advocacy, empowerment, inequality, race, class Literacy: collaboration, connection, crowdsourcing, deliberation, history, narrative Tools: digital platforms, technologies, frameworks for meaning-making Concepts: accessibility, surveillance, privacy, ideology, politics Hopefully these DRC chats will be useful in shaping digital rhetoric as a discipline. Thank you for participating! And also–check Twitter next Tuesday, when we’ll be discussing our current research projects.