As we wrap up our 13th Blog Carnival, we want thank all of our contributors for their engaging and thought-provoking ideas. In January 2018, we shared our CFP with the goals of considering how digital rhetoricians are being called to help fill important theoretical voids in the ethics of these technologies and how intelligence in AI is identified/defined and by whom. In response, our contributors have offered critical observations about the connections between AI and digital-rhetorical theories. Here are three main themes that emerged from the seven posts: 1. Feminist resistance to AI narratives In our first post, “Tropes of…
Author: Jason Tham
Jason Tham, Lauren Garskie, Lauren Brentnell
Jason is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota––Twin Cities. His current research focuses on making and design thinking in writing pedagogy, multimodality, and emerging technologies such as wearables and mixed reality.
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2018 Computers and Writing conference at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. If you would like to be a reviewer for this year’s Computers and 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. Reviews can be composed in written text (500-1500 words) or in any other appropriate media as long as the information can…
Introduction Cut through the noise, engage in focused discussion––that’s what Kialo (www.kialo.com), a digital debate platform for civic and political topics, claims to offer as a public debate platform. Kialo prides itself on being a “noise-free” forum for individuals to voice their opinions. In an age of pervasive social media and the associated “noise” caused by algorithmic clutters and the echo chambers effect, Kialo promises a more visually rich and rational platform to host complex conversations. Users may either join an existing discussion or create their own topics. Existing topics range from ethics, to education, to economics. The website shows…
Introduction Gender Codes: Why Women are Leaving Computing is a digital exhibit arranged by A.J. Gerick as a companion to a book of the same title edited by Thomas J. Misa in 2010. The digital exhibit and book make the argument that women contribute to the development of computing but have been systematically erased from history. Misa is a former director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. The institute is an archive and research center dedicated to the history of information technology. This digital exhibit is curated as part of an effort to showcase some special…