For several years now, the need to weed out the truth from misinformation online has continued to grow. A major factor in this need is the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI). GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) is “a language model developed by OpenAI that is capable of producing response text that is nearly indistinguishable from natural human language” (Lund and Wang). Reactions to advancements in AI’s abilities to mimic human discourse have ranged from excitement to anxiety. Some have embraced it, like the creators of South Park. The March 9, 2023, episode, “Deep Learning,” credits writers Trey Parker and ChatGPT. Credits…
Author: Laura Leigh Menard
Laura Leigh Menard
I am a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at Bowling Green State University.
My first video game was Pong. My first computer an Apple IIe. I have great memories of grade school and being rewarded for good behavior with 15 minutes of computer time, and of my middle school science teacher using a dot matrix printer and 8-bit computer graphics to create invitations to dissections. I have been lucky to witness the birth and explosion of video games, the internet, social media, and all things digital. It’s become so ingrained in my psyche that I can’t imagine life without it! It is also the focus and source of my dissertation. My research focuses…
2021-2022 was an exciting year for the Sweetland DRC Fellows. As their fellowship draws to a close, our six fellows offer reflections on their experiences and projects. This year’s cohort continued to focus on themes of accessibility, ethics, and activism, along with several other topics within the field of digital rhetoric. Our blog carnival explored emerging perspectives on new media technologies, and a new teaching materials page was created to showcase crowd-sourced classroom activities, texts, and prompts. In addition, our fellows created a new podcast, the DRC Talk Series, which features prominent scholars currently working in the field of digital…
Dr. Wilfredo Flores is an assistant professor and former DRC Fellow at the University of North Carolina specializing in digital cultural rhetorics, and colonial intimacies between science, technologies, and medicine. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hsuJofJmy1D7AqtQ2iAVB?si=29bcf7809ea843ff Scholars and Works Mentioned/Discussed Haas, Angela. “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.4 (2007): 77-100. TAGS – Twitter Archiving Google Sheet (Martin Hawksey). https://tags.hawksey.info/ Gallagher, John R. “A Framework for Internet Case Study Methodology in Writing Studies.” Computers and Composition, vol. 54, Dec. 2019, p. 102509. Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “R-Words: Refusing Research.” Humanizing Research:…