As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2017-2018 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham It’s a privilege to work with Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Adrienne Raw, and the DRC Fellows this past academic year. Through the various projects we have undertaken and collaborated on, I have expanded my personal learning network immensely. The DRC has given me a platform to share my perspectives and ideas. More importantly, being a DRC Fellow lets me connect with scholars in the field who are doing very interesting…
Author: Brandee Easter
Jason Tham, Lauren Garskie, Brandee Easter, Adrienne Raw, Lauren Brentnell, Kristin Ravel, Carleigh Davis
Brandee Easter is a doctoral student in the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on intersections of gender and digital rhetoric.
Title: Just Not Sorry Authors: Tami Reiss, Steve Brudz, Manish Kakwani, and Eric Tillberg of Def Method Publication date: Dec 2015 Experience here/Website: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-not-sorry-the-gmail/fmegmibednnlgojepmidhlhpjbppmlci?hl=en-US I often do not write my emails alone. Daily, my colleagues and I draft emails together around a conference table. Often, we ask, “Can I read this to you all? How do I respond to this? What goes in this subject line?” And in the most difficult instances, we write the email together. Moments like these seem to have only increased in my graduate studies. While this means emailing takes longer, it sometimes feels necessary to…
Title: White Collar Crime Risk Zones Author(s): Brian Clifton, Sam Lavigne, and Francis Tseng Publication: The New Inquiry Publication date: March 2017 Experience here: https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/ It’s moving day here in Madison, Wisconsin. Students are returning for fall semester, and residents across the city are packing up for a new start. After unloading the U-Haul and unpacking the dishes, new residents will begin to get familiar with their neighborhoods, and online searches are an obvious and easy way to find not only nearby coffee shops and laundromats but a variety of location-specific data. In particular, a quick Google search for “how…
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2016-2017 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their time, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. David Coad The DRC has been a wonderful experience of engaging in and promoting community in our scholarly world. I am using this post to share some things I’ve learned about digital community building—something I am interested in and something I believe is very key to the DRC, it’s purpose and success. I recently published an article in Computers and Composition about graduate students engaging in community building on Twitter at the 2015 Computers…