Hacking Bias: Designing advocacy in the classroom
Can technology be racist? This is a question I ask students to grapple with. Many of my students…
Browsing: pedagogy
Teaching poster design as graphic advocacy
I teach in a communications department that emphasizes critically-informed digital literacy, social justice, and civic engagement. Many courses…
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…
MLA Session 485: Liminality and the Digital Turn
Presenters: Beth Kramer and Rick Cole (Boston University), Naomi Silver (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and Eric Rawson…
MLA Session 089: What We Teach When We Teach Digital Humanities: Curriculum and Experience
Presenters: Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida), Grant Glass (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Molly Des Jardin (University of…
Watson Session C.8: Posthuman Futures for Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy
Presenters: Collin Bjork (Indiana University), Jeffery A. Sternstein (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Brent Lucia (William Patterson University), and Jason Barrett-Fox (Weber State…
C&W 18 Review: “Reading and Writing about Bodies and Technology: Imagining a Rhetorical Technofeminist Pedagogy.”
Session E11: “Reading and Writing about Bodies and Technology: Imagining a Rhetorical Technofeminist Pedagogy” Presenters: Kaitlin Clinnin, Katherine…
Collaborating on the DRC Wiki: Summer Class on Social Justice through Technical Communication on the Mexico/U.S. Borderland
By: Laurie Garcia, Aaron Goulette, Lionell Manlutac, Shelly Mansfield, Sam Mata, J. Sonya Patino, and Laura Gonzales In…
Teaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election Wrap Up
At the end of our 2016 election year, we distributed a CFP that asked digital rhetoricians to consider…
Proceed with Confidence: Teaching Information Literacy in the Age of Fake News
As co-assistant directors of the first-year writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we have been privy to…
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…
Exploring the Rhetoric of Fake News through Twitter Hashtag Analysis
I share our collective concern with the circulation of misrepresentations and outright lies online, which has seen increased…
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…
Foregrounding the Question
“I have to question the validity of everything now,” read a student’s comment in the course evaluations for…
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…