The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, University of Michigan Press, and MPublishing are thrilled to announce that Daniel Anderson, Professor of English at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the inaugural winner of the UM Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric for his long-form webtext Screen Rhetoric and the Material World. Look for publication of the project in 2013 from the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Series and UM Press. Screen Rhetoric and the Material World is an innovative project that reconfigures the print-centric theories we use for composing—as well as reading, analyzing, and making sense of—screen-based media. The proposal…
Author: Naomi Silver
We’re excited at the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative to be gearing up for WIDE-EMU next weekend (Oct 20) in E. Lansing. The input we received at last year’s unconference at EMU in Ypsi was crucial to the development of the DRC, and many of the features you see here today – from blog carnivals to resources to born digital book publication to the DRC wiki – owe their existence to these conversations. You can read about our proposal for WIDE-EMU 2011 here. For WIDE-EMU 2012, we’re focusing on the DRC Wiki with the aim of jumpstarting its development and really building…
With the colder winds starting to blow (here in Michigan, at least) and school back in session for a few weeks now, it seems high time to launch the “back-to-school edition” of the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Blog Carnival. In our inaugural blog carnival, you essayed your definitions of digital rhetoric and its interactions with other kindred terms and concepts. Now, with that conversation in mind, we want to hear about what cool digirhet projects you worked on for your summer vacation, and what new digirhet courses, assignments, and initiatives you’ve got going on right now! (And if these are ideas others could build upon, we’d…
Extra, extra! Read all about it! Announcing the 2012 Computers & Writing Reviews. Thanks to an amazing team of 14 reviewers and 3 editors, responding to tight deadlines and quick turnarounds with grace and aplomb, the latest edition of the C&W Reviews is ready for your viewing pleasure. Read about keynote talks on memory and spaces; the new aesthetic, objects, and glitches; and knowledge cartels and open access; Town Hall fora on learning spaces, computational literacies, and new media composition and design; and a wide range of sessions on topics spanning gaming, digital humanities, queer digital spaces, sound, and more. Tell…