Last week, I met and chatted with Dr. Robert Cummings over Skype. Dr. Cummings earned his Ph.D. in English in 2006 from the University of Georgia where he focused on the intersection between Rhetoric and Composition and digital technology. He is now an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Center for Writing and Rhetoric at The University of Mississippi. He also serves on the board for the Wiki Education Foundation. With the DRC’s own wiki for digital rhetoric initiative and our current Wiki Wednesday post series, I immediately thought about reaching out to Dr. Cummings for an…
Author: Lindsey Harding
Lindsey Harding
Lindsey Harding graduated from the University of Georgia in May 2015 with her Ph.D. in English. She is now the Assistant Director of the Writing Intensive Program at UGA. Her research and writing interests include composition and rhetoric, creative writing, and digital humanities. In May 2011, she graduated from Sewanee University’s School of Letters with her M.F.A. in creative writing. She earned her B.A. from Columbia University in 2004. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and three small children.
Title: What’s in a Name? The Anatomy of Defining New/Multi/Modal/Digital/Media Texts Author: Claire Lauer Publisher: Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 17.1 Publication date: Fall 2012 Official Website: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/17.1/inventio/lauer/index.html A screenshot from What’s in a Name? by Claire Lauer I remember the first time I heard about webtexts and started browsing Kairos sometime after reading The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich and while in the middle of reading Janet Murray’s Inventing the Medium. My head was swarming with terminology – new media, digital media, teleaction, and affordances. “What’s in a Name?” was, aptly, the first webtext I…
If you’re a college hoops fan, you’ve got to wait until March 17th for Selection Sunday and March Madness, but here at Sweetland DRC, we’re hosting our own. Throughout March, we’ll be featuring webtexts like crazy. The fellows will each be presenting their own picks, and we invite you to join us in our frenzy. What’s your favorite webtext? What online article, site, or project has inspired you and your work in the classroom, the academy, and beyond? If you’re interested in contributing a post, we’d love to hear from you. Let us know who you’re rooting for and give…
Over the past couple of weeks, the DRC fellows have been discussing the #DRCwiki they are starting to build to contribute to the field’s history and prepare for Computers and Writing 2014. We wanted to share our email thread in hopes of furthering our conversation about wikis, histories, forms, and gestures. Below, we’ve included screenshots of our emails, fleshed out with our collaborative annotations. As you can see, we were working through these questions: What does it mean to write a history for a discipline as diverse as ours? How do we decide what to include, and how do our…