Author: Lauren Garskie

As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as a returning DRC Fellow this year. In my first year, I learned how to engage different scholars and field leaders in sharing their projects with the greater community of digital rhetoric. This year, I got to experience another dimension of serving this field by encouraging junior scholars––graduate students and new faculty––to promote their emerging research and cutting-edge ideas through various events…

The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) or the 2019 Two-Year College English Association Conference (TYCA) in Pittsburgh, PA. We are particularly interested in conference reviews relating to digital rhetoric, though you can propose another 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. If you would like to be a reviewer for a #4C19 or TYCA session, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a…

The below film is in the spirit of and in response to Jacqueline Rhodes’ “think-practice” in “Becoming Utopias: Toward a Queer Rhetoric of Instantiation” as well as Rick Wysocki’s “The World Outside the (Web)Text” think-practice on his editorial work for the Making Future Matters keynote webtext. Wysocki’s think-practice was prompted by questioning “what other ways the body could be made visible in digital rhetorical production or, in my case, digital editorial labor.” He settled on “a snapshot of a becoming” through screenshots and video of his digital editing and composing process even as he recognized the incompleteness of the documentation—a…

Presenters: Kathleen Spada (University of Cincinnati), Katelyn Lusher (University of Cincinnati), Rachel Donegan (Middle Tennessee State University), and Kirstin Bone (University of Alabama) Kathleen Spada, “Mutal(ity), Respect, and Conflict: Critical Tenets to the Rhetoric of Unschooling as Relational Praxis” Kathleen focused on the question of can students be strategically unschooled? Unschooling was presented as a critical and caring pedagogy and through relational theory. Kathleen shared unschooling moves from her classes that shift the tone of the class and as a means of how she can embody presence. These moves included: beginning the course with her teaching philosophy for the class…