Author: Kristin vanEyk

Presenters: Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida), Grant Glass (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Molly Des Jardin (University of Pennsylvania), and Mitchell Ogden (University of Washington, Stout) Anastasia Salter, “Whose Theory is it Anyway? Confessions of an Imposter Teaching Digital Humanities” Salter begins her talk by recognizing that the definitions of “texts and technology” are in constant negotiation, and that our experiences with texts and technology as instructors are often different from those of our students. Salter notes that when she began her work in the Texts and Technology PhD program at the University of Central Florida, the intersections of digital and…

Presenters: Caddie Alford (Virginia Commonwealth University), Matthew Breece (University of Texas), and Bridget Gelms (San Francisco State University) Alford, Breece, and Gelms consider the ethical implications of social media platforms, like Twitter and YouTube, and of open access to social media that results in user comment threads and user re-circulation of content. The panelists use specific social media events and locations as case studies to argue that ethics and social media are entwined in complicated ways that rhetoricians can and should render visible. Caddie Alford, “On Not Leaving Things Alone” Using an Aristotelian frame for her consideration of clickbait and…