In our recent intergenerational interview with the founding, former, and current editors of Computers and Composition for the journal’s forthcoming 40th Anniversary Special Issue, Drs. Cindy Selfe, Kristine Blair, and Jason Tham emphasized that the current moment calls for renewed attention to two areas the field has yet to fully address: multimodality and social justice. There is an urgent need to center human experience and address issues of access, equity, inclusion, and diversity through our teaching practices, pedagogical innovations, and collective research efforts. Multimodality holds considerable potential to advance these goals, enacting a human-centered approach to composition while addressing social-justice-related…
Author: Thais Rodrigues Cons
Thais Rodrigues Cons, Ali Alalem
Thais Rodrigues Cons is a PhD student in Rhetoric & Composition at the University of Arizona, where she currently works at the Graduate Center Office of Fellowships and Writing Support. Her research interests include Technical and Professional Writing, Critical Digital Literacies, Multilingual Writing & Identity, and Writing Centers.
This year as a continuing DRC Fellow, I decided to create a video-based, multimodal introduction. If you want to read my first introduction that has my chronological history with digital platforms and technologies you can read it at this link.
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…
A “Yack” in DRC terminology is a collaborative conversation that brings together multiple perspectives on shared themes in digital rhetoric. In this Yack, we explore how our transnational experiences as Global South scholars shape our approaches to digital rhetoric scholarship. We examine how our journeys, from Nigerian digital storytelling and design to Brazilian academic literacies, inform our research and challenge existing frameworks in the field. Through our diverse yet connected experiences, we illustrate how transnational perspectives can transform and enrich digital rhetoric scholarship by revealing the cultural and linguistic assumptions embedded in digital technologies and academic practices. • • • …