The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative invites you to stop by and visit our table in the CUE Atrium, 2nd floor, throughout the 2014 Computers and Writing in Pullman, Washington! We’ll have many opportunities for you to contribute to the DRC. Stop by and: We’ll help you get usernames and passwords to edit the DRC Wiki. We’ll help you edit the DRC Wiki so you can earn a DRC Wiki Contributor Badge. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Wiki Contributor Badge Contribute your voice and perspective to the the history of computers and writing by recording a video about your background with our community’s stories,…
Author: Brenta Blevins
Brenta Blevins
A Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellow in 2013-14 and 2014-15, Brenta Blevins is an Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Digital Studies at the University of Mary Washington. She completed her PhD in digital rhetoric and composition at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro where her dissertation examined the rhetoric and literacy of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. She previously worked in the software development industry. Her current research interests include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality, digital literacy and digital pedagogy, and multiliteracy/multimodality.
The Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is continuing to celebrate our efforts to build a digital rhetoric wiki and 20 years of wiki with another Wiki Wednesday post. Today, we’re looking at research into academic interactions with the world-famous Wikipedia, the web’s crowd-sourced encyclopedia launched in January 2001. The Wikimedia Foundation’s April 2014 Research Newsletter reported recent research performed by Lu Xiao and Nicole Askin. The two researchers surveyed 120 academics across disciplines in late 2011 and early 2012 about their attitudes toward Wikipedia and open-access academic publishing. The researchers presented their study findings in “Academic Opinions of Wikipedia and Open-Access Publishing” in Online Information Review 38.3. The authors reported…
It’s another Wiki Wednesday here at the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative! We’re celebrating twenty years of wiki technology by developing a wiki, an online collection of content about digital rhetoric, computers and writing/composition, digital humanities, and related fields. We invite you to become a DRC Wiki Editor and to become a Friend of the DRC Wiki. Help us build a resource for students and scholars–and yourself! Today, we’re looking into the history of wikis by taking a look at the most famous wiki, Wikipedia. Five Wiki Facts about Wikis 1. Ward Cunningham, the creator of the first wiki software, named his software…
We’re celebrating the 20th birthday of the wiki this year by talking about wikis and expanding the DRC Wiki. Last week, we talked about how we hope the wiki can be useful to students, instructors, and administrators working with digital rhetoric, computers and composition, digital humanities, composition studies, and other related fields. This week, we’re talking about the different contributions DRC Wiki editors can make. As we’ll see in the list of possible contributions below, contributing to a wiki doesn’t mean an editor needs to make a comprehensive, dissertation-length contribution to the wiki about a topic. Instead, DRC Wiki editors can…