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…
Author: Laura McCann
Alyse Campbell, Laura McCann, Laura Leigh Menard, Courtney A. Mauck, Laken Brooks, Jennifer Burke Reifman, Sarah Hughes
Laura McCann is a Rhetoric PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon University working within the rhetoric of health and medicine, technical communication, and digital rhetorics. Her current project studies master narratives of infertility and the rhetorical strategies patients employ to make sense of these disruptive medical experiences.
Acknowledgments First, I’d like to acknowledge how grateful we are for each of the contributors for Blog Carnival 20. I want to thank everyone for the time and energy they devoted to this project and for the insightful work they provided. In the CFP for Blog Carnival 20, we asked contributors to share the new and exciting ways they might be integrating new media technologies into their pedagogies or professional development strategies. The entries represent a range of responses that showcase contributors’ innovative strategies in their approaches to new media technology. We hope these reflections provide useful insight and new…
Editors: Courtney A. Mauck & Laura L. Menard With the continuous development of new technologies and social networking spaces, teachers/scholars in the computers and writing community may often find themselves experimenting with tools or assignments that remain relatively underexplored or undertheorized. Because of the typical publication schedules upheld by traditional academic journals, research on social network sites and new media technologies can sometimes “fall behind” and may not accurately represent the innovative things teachers/scholars are doing right now. For this reason, we’re excited to host a Blog Carnival that seeks posts reflecting on new/emerging perspectives at the intersections of new…
I came to be interested in digital rhetoric almost by accident. During my MA, it was a requirement to incorporate at least one multimodal project into our curriculum. To be clear, multimodality and digital rhetoric should not be conflated, but for me, they have always gone hand-in-hand. For whatever reason, completely uninformed by any research, I decided to leave the multimodal project completely open-ended instead of taking the route most of my colleagues had taken, which was just to have students create Prezi presentations based on their research papers. I was blown away by the projects my students proposed and…