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…
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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…
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…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Teaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Teaching Digital Rhetoric after the Election Compositionists, communication scholars, and digital rhetoricians are…
A Reflection and Step-by-Step Process of Using Open-Source Software to Closed Caption Video
In May, at the 2016 Digital Media and Composition Institute at The Ohio State University, we (participants) were each…
Making Space for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies
The idea for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies began at the 2012 Computers and Writing Conference…
Precarious Deliberation and Failing Faster: The Value of Glitch in Multimodal Public Writing Assignments
What happens when public writing assignments get too public? This question surfaces each time I teach the final…
Call for Blog Carnival Contributions: Makerspaces and Writing Practices
*Note: There’s still time to participate! The deadline for proposals is extended to February 12, 2016.* Over the…
D8: Two Applications of Multimodal Pedagogies
Panelists Jason Dockter, Lincoln Land Community College Jacki Fiscus, Univerity of Washington Review While I always enjoy learning…
Hacking the Classroom
Text: “Hacking the Classroom: Eight Perspectives” Authors: Jim Brown, Mary Hocks, Aimee Knight, Virginia Kuhn, Viola Lasmana, Elizabeth…
Creating Digital Spaces for Linguistic Diversity
I’ve just returned to North Carolina from a trip to Montreal where I was greeted everywhere with the…
Networks of Experiences
Dr. Elizabeth Davis’s fourth and final Hack and Yack Series post. Enjoy! In my previous post, I talked…