Author: Laura Leigh Menard

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I am a PhD student in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Caddie Alford is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University specializing in social media culture, feminism, and writing pedagogies. Scholars and Works Mentioned/Discussed Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media. Hampton Press, 2009 Wendy Chun, https://digitaldemocracies.org/ Lennard, Natasha. Becoming Numerous: Essays on Anti-Facist Life. Verso, 2019 Russell, Legacy. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. Verso, 2020 Samantha North, https://samanthanorth.com/ Lockett, Alexandria L., et al., editors. Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2021. Click the link below to download the transcript

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Dr. Graham is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin studying bioscience and health policy through AI and machine learning. Scholars and Works Mentioned/Discussed Hsieh, H.-F., & Shannon, S. E. (2005). Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 15(9), 1277–1288. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732305276687 Graham, S. Scott (2022). The Doctor and the Algorithm: Promise, Peril, and the Future of Health AI. Oxford University Press. https://sscottgraham.com/ Silge, Julia & David Robinson (2017). Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach. O’Reilly Media. Hvitfeldt, Emil & Julia Silge (2021). Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R. Chapman Hall/CRC. edX -…

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Dr. Gonzales, Assistant Professor of Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics at the University of Florida, discusses the methods she uses in her own research. Dr. Gonzales specializes in user experience, technical communication, and multi-lingual digital tools and technologies. Scholars and Works Mentioned/Discussed Transcript of the interview.

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In this limited run podcast, DRC fellows, Laura McCann, a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, and Laura Leigh Menard, a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Bowling Green State University, sit down with digital rhetoricians to talk in depth about their research methods and methodologies. The goal for this podcast is to provide nitty gritty details about how leading and innovative scholars in the fields of rhetoric, composition, and technical communication do their work. Their interviews dig into how these scholars define and understand digital rhetoric projects, how they go about identifying and then collecting…

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