Dr. Caddie Alford Interview
Dr. Caddie Alford is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University specializing in social media culture, feminism, and…
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Lecturing a Classroom of Zombies? Blame the New Big Three
Unlike the brain-eating zombies in intense action movies, a classroom of zombies refers to students who struggle to…
Mindfulness as a Reflective Lens in Composition
I first became aware of mindfulness when practicing yin yoga, a slow yogic form that requires one to…
Silent Discussions: From Silicon Valley to the Classroom for More Productive, Equitable, and Accessible Conversations
When our institution shifted from in-person to online instruction due to Covid, I was confident that I could…
“Maps are Cool”: Investigating the Potentials for Map-Making in Multimodal Pedagogies
Let’s just get this out of the way. I love maps. My fascination with maps started young, with…
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…
Building an Epistemology: Media Literacy with Community Dialogue
In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to the spread of not only a deadly…
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…
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…