Introducing a New Podcast: On The Job w/ the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
Show Notes Welcome to On The Job w/ the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, a limited podcast series from…
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Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: The “New Normal”
Editors: Sarah Hughes and Nupoor Ranade For our latest Blog Carnival, we are seeking submissions from the computers…
“Editor’s Outro: Reflecting on the Continued Need for Empathy as Students, Researchers, Teachers, and Human Beings as We Look Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future”
Acknowledgements We are grateful for each of the contributors of Blog Carnival 18. Thank you for devoting time…
Nobody to Share the Burden: The Importance of Empathy for Single Moms
“I just need 30-minutes to work, and then I’ll play with you.” I tell my 7-year old, as…
Vulnerability is a Topos for Rhetorical Empathy
The Fall 2020 semester saw Composition programs across academic institutions struggling to adjust to the multiplied limitations brought…
Against Digitally Mediated Empathy: Empathy as a Vector for Viral Rhetorics
Like many humanists, when I graduated with my bachelor’s in English, I started searching for a way to…
Radical Empathy and Compassion in FYW
Engaging in social justice work is often explained as heart or love work because of the connection to…
Developing a Rhetorical Empathy in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Advocacy Project
In the early days of the pandemic, fear and uncertainty were felt across many sectors. The material impact…
Stepping into Personas: Empathy as a Mode of Inquiry
From Mette Køstner / Unsplash.ocm When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, I was teaching my Document Design…
We get by with a little help from our friends: Extending empathy throughout, and beyond, the pandemic
In March 2020 we began teaching, learning, and researching from home. We felt unilateral uncertainty and set aside…
The Role of Empathy in and after the Pandemic
Editors: Jianfen Chen and Danielle Koepke The spread of COVID-19 across the nation and the globe has posed…
Introduction to Kimberly Williams
Black android griots. The battery packs of the unhuman. Necromancy in codes, wires, and equations. I’ve had my…
Introduction to Jianfen Chen (陈剑芬）
I understand digital rhetoric as a creative extension of traditional Aristotelian rhetoric thanks to digital technologies, but with…
Introduction to Sarah Hughes
I approached the arcade on a clear but chilly Tuesday in December. It stood out against the crowded…
Introduction to Danielle Koepke
The story of my connection to digital rhetoric begins with Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). She ran for Congress…
Introduction to D’Arcee Charington Neal
If you’d asked me anytime before 2017 what the term “digital rhetoric” meant, I probably wouldn’t have any…
DRC 2019-2020 Fellows End-of-Year Reflection
As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2019-2020 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their…