Critical Design Rhetorics of Digital Democracy: A Course Design for Informed Dissent and Design Advocacy
Image created by Matthew V. Jacobson Introduction A few months ago, I gave myself a challenge: design a…
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Affordances and Constraints of Data Visualization in Politics
Data can be a tricky animal when it comes to politics. One area that is particularly prone to…
Semiotics and Constructing Fake News
I recently started asking students to examine how creators of fake news use fragments of truth as a…
Post-Election Feminist Pedagogy: “What is (Your) Truth? Understanding Fake News and Digital Citizenship”
POSITIONING THE WORKSHOP In the spirit of feminist pedagogy, we would like to start by positioning ourselves: We…
Reading Science News Rhetorically in the Age of Alternative Facts
That the media distorts scientific findings is not a new observation. As this PhD Comic suggests, there…
Human vs. Machine: Tracking Political Discourse Using Voyant
With the rising prevalence of data mining, surveillance analytics, and personally tailored user experience within our online navigation,…
Building Social Networking Sites for Social Good
In fall semester 2016, I taught an advanced web design course in the undergraduate Professional Writing program in…
Authoring Bubbles: Curation, Filter Bubbles, and Politics
Though I’ve been teaching students about filter bubbles for a few years now, the topic has gained visibility…
Wiki Wednesday: Illustrating Rhetorical Concepts with the DRC Wiki
Viral videos, Twitter hashtags, and wikis. These were just a few of the many technological productions students analyzed,…
Tool Review Tuesday: Screencast-o-matic
What Does this Tool Do? Screencastomatic is video and audio screen capture software. The online version that works…
Wiki Wednesday: Using a Collaborative Classroom Wiki for Exam Study
Welcome to another Wiki Wednesday! We’ve been talking recently about public wikis, such as the DRC Wiki, Wikipedia,…
Wiki Wednesday: Using Wikipedia’s History Function to Teach Writing Process
Wikis aren’t anything like other traditional forms of textual media. For one, they’re extremely transparent. In a wiki,…
The Revision Project: A Summer of DigiRhet Drafting
What did you do this summer? Memories of sitting in school on the first day, recounting the summer…
Course Materials & Project Examples: Language, Technology, & Culture
Lisa Ede has taught at Oregon State University since 1980 and has been teaching the course “Language, Technology,…
Lesson Plan Library ~ from the Digital Writing and Research Lab at UT-Austin
UT-Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab’s newly re-designed lesson plan library is a frequently updated archive of innovative…