Author: Brandee Easter

At the end of our 2016 election year, we distributed a CFP that asked digital rhetoricians to consider how we might teach in the post-election moment. In their responses, our contributors focused on extending conversations on digital and media literacy in our “post-truth” moment. They shared lesson plans, readings, activities, and reflections on meeting the challenges of teaching digital rhetoric after the election. Our contributors: Considered how digital infrastructures shape our experiences. Brett Keegan shared his lesson plan for teaching how filter bubbles shape our “perceived political ‘realities,’” and Dawn Opel challenged students in a web design course to build…

The DRC will be hosting a Wiki Quest for the DRC Wiki at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication! We’ll be sitting at the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative table in the Action Hub (Pre-Function E Area near the Exhibit Hall) throughout the conference. How To Play Stop by our table in the Action Hub to pick up a DRC Wiki Quest game sheet. This handout provides instructions for registering and contributing to the DRC Wiki and helps you keep track of your edits and other “quests.” For every numbered task completed (e.g. “Make your first edit”), you’ll check off that item on…

Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Teaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election   Compositionists, communication scholars, and digital rhetoricians are already reflecting on and discussing post-election teaching strategies in their own departments. This conversation continues publicly on Twitter, in sponsored webinars, and in collaborative syllabus documents. We invite scholars to expand these ongoing conversations to make them practical and usable for instructors in our disciplines. This blog carnival will explore how digital rhetoricians respond in their teaching and research to this post-election moment. We are seeking submissions in a wide variety of forms, including brief case studies, lesson plans, interviews, tool reviews,…

Every semester, I search for new icebreakers for my class, and one always catches my eye: share your most embarrassing moment. I’ve never used it, but when thinking about how to introduce myself in this post, it seemed like a good time to try. So, here it is: my most embarrassing digital moment. Although unlike any other videogame I play, I really like Destiny. It’s scary and violent and time-consuming, but the gorgeous graphics drew me in anyway. The biggest challenge for me has been that although you can play both multiplayer and solo, you make the most progress playing…