Author: Mehdi Mohammadi

As we begin one academic year and look back at the last, the DRC Fellows share their reflections on their projects, collaborations, and takeaways from the Fellowship. It was wonderful to work with each of the Fellows this year, and to see the ways in which connections with DRC advisory board members, directors, and other fellows developed. Additionally, all of the fellows co-presented at Computers and Writing this year and interviewed the past and current editors of Computers and Composition. We wish the Fellows the best on the next part of their journey and appreciate all their contributions! Thais Rodrigues…

Galit Wellner’s (2017) concept of writing relations provides a useful starting point for examining how generative AI transforms not only who writes, but how writing unfolds in time. Wellner develops writing relations to distinguish inscription from the interpretive activity privileged by postphenomenological hermeneutic relations. Writing, for Wellner, is productive: through the mediation of technology, it creates a textual trace that enters and alters the world. This leads her to expand the conventional human–technology–world relation into the quad-scheme I—tech—text—world, allowing the technological artifact, the produced text, and its relation to the world to be considered separately. This framework takes on particular…

When we first circulated the call for “[blank]-in-the-loop writing,” we were motivated by a deceptively simple question: what, exactly, belongs in the loop? The question emerged from ongoing, often polemic, conversations about generative AI and writing, but it was never intended to be limited to AI itself. Inspired by Alan Knowles’s work on rhetorical load sharing and by the increasingly complex ecologies in which contemporary writing unfolds, we invited contributors to explore the people, technologies, values, infrastructures, practices and possibilities that shape writing processes. Intuitively and empirically, we believed loops were refreshingly variable, idiosyncratic, and somehow also familiar. We hoped…

In this post the 2024-25 DRC Fellows cohort share their reflections of working on collaborations and developing their scholarship alongside the DRC. During this past year, this cohort of Fellows developed a variety of projects ranging from blog carnivals, podcast episodes, theoretical pieces, and more! We loved working with these Fellows and look forward to following their journey beyond the Fellowship! Robert Beck The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative has been a real highlight of my graduate school experience. It was great meeting and working with other graduate students with a wide-range of interests all of which are centered on digital rhetoric. The…