Online Place-Making in Virtual Communities: Digitizing Indigenous Resistance
Global resistance movements for today’s Indigenous communities are well attuned to the geopolitical terrain of sovereignty as one…
Browsing: Blog Carnival 16
Google Analytics and its Exclusions
Methods of big data analysis have helped enterprises better understand their users and the market, and to make…
Trans* Technical Communication
Dr. Avery C. Edenfield Assistant Professor Technical Communication and Rhetoric Utah State University I am part of a…
Environmental Justice and Online Garden Exchange
In the summer of 2018, I started a perennial pollinator garden in my backyard. Growing plants is a…
Digital Sharing and Mental Health: Toward Awareness
Universities are grappling with a mental health crisis that is not disconnected from digital developments (Degges-White and Borzumato-Gainey…
‘I Do This For Us’: Thinking Through Reciprocity & Researcher-Community Relationships
The beauty of Black digital spaces lies in the work that takes place within and between the communities…
My Algorithmic Community: Considering the Role of Personalizing Algorithms in Online Community Formation
On October 31, 2019, I received some of the happiest news I’d received in a while: after a…
Decentering the Classroom: Distributed Expertise as Social Justice Praxis in First Year Composition
For the past few semesters, my first-year composition students and I have participated in an ongoing, continuous digital…
The Disability March as a Meta-Cyberprotest
Almost three years since the Women’s March on Washington set records for the largest single-day protest in U.S.…
Running as Quiet Activism
Until 1972, women were not allowed to officially compete in running marathons. Today, 45.7% of American marathon participants…
Digital Activism: Strategic, Inessential, and Inenarrable Alliances for an Ethical and Political Imperative
After my panel presentation at #4C2019 on “Critical Digital Archiving Against the Grain: Precarities, Negotiations, and Possibilities,” one…
World Interaction Design Day Event Report on Gendered AI
September 24 is World Interaction Design Day. It is an annual event where people who are interested in…
#sneckdown: A Digital Community Using Snow to Combat Poor Urban Design
Each winter, a layer of snow envelops various cities across the planet. While most view the snow as…
Call for Blog Contributions: Digital Community Building as Social Justice Praxis
Editors: Dana Comi and McKinley Green Introduction We are two of many scholars who recognize that networked digital…