Phil Bratta, Malea Powell, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss Authorial Roles & Digital Technologies The ghosts of authors past continue to haunt us today—those (white) writing men alone at their desks with a glass of bourbon, those (white) writing women in a room of their own with a lamp flickering, both solitary at and in their craft. We’ve known for at least three decades how these romantic images are unrealistic, exclusionary, outmoded, and dead. More recently, perhaps, we’ve come to a richer notion of author. Author at computer: working across networks, collaborating across time and space, accessing analog and digital resources; author as more than…
Author: Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
The idea for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies began at the 2012 Computers and Writing Conference (http://siteslab.org/cwcon/2012/). The conference theme of architextures got us thinking about the ways in which physical and virtual architecture—and the processes of architecting—shape and are shaped by the creation, distribution, and reception of texts. At the conference, we both attended a hands-on session Saturday afternoon in Tompkins Hall on the North Carolina State University campus, and a conversation immediately after the session led us to see the value of bringing together multiple voices on how writing instructors propose, design, defend, and use the…
During the Fall semester of 2014, a group of us took a graduate seminar on multimodal composing at Michigan State University (taught by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss). In the course, we read, discussed, and built on theories and practices in digital and visual rhetorics. In this blog post, we share one of our course assignments: a multimodal book review project that we hope will inspire further conversation and engagement with the DRC community. One of the tasks we faced in this course was immersing ourselves in past and current conversations around visual rhetoric and multimodal composing by focusing on themes of…