As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2016-2017 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their time, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. David Coad The DRC has been a wonderful experience of engaging in and promoting community in our scholarly world. I am using this post to share some things I’ve learned about digital community building—something I am interested in and something I believe is very key to the DRC, it’s purpose and success. I recently published an article in Computers and Composition about graduate students engaging in community building on Twitter at the 2015 Computers…
Author: David Coad
Kristin Ravel, Adrienne Raw, Brandy Dieterle, Brandee Easter, David Coad, Sara West, Jason Luther
David T. Coad is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include social media, digital literacies, and qualitative methods.
We at the DRC had a wonderful time at the 2017 Computers and Writing Conference and were happy to see all the new and familiar faces at our table and Wiki panel! In tradition with past Computers and Writing conferences, we put out a call for conference panel reviews and are now excited to offer a small glimpse at the many wonderful presentations the conference offered. Thanks so much to our reviewers and to everyone else who made this year’s Computers and Writing possible. This year, the University of Findlay hosted the conference, which was held June 1-4, 2017. Focusing…
Title: Introduction to Enculturation, Issue 23: Perspectives and Definitions of Digital Rhetoric Author(s): Justin Hodgson and Scot Barnett Publication: Enculturation Publication date: November 22, 2016 Experience here/Website: http://enculturation.net/what-is-rhetorical-about-digital-rhetoric Image/Screen Capture: Although most of the DRC’s “Webtext of the Month” emphasize engaging and hypertextual composition innovations, the focus of this month’s webtext is an online, primarily text-based introduction to the recent issue of Enculturation. The introduction, written by Scot Barnett and Justin Hodgson, focuses on some general observations from the April 2015 Indiana Digital Rhetoric Symposium (IDRS), which brought together a number of rhetoric scholars to discuss what defines digital rhetoric.…
When we circulated the CFP for our 10th blog carnival back in September, we asked scholars to consider digital publishing by looking both backward and forward: to consider how authorship, processes, and tools have changed, to assess present challenges, and imagine how digital publishing might look to future publics depending on how the field responded to these challenges. The responses to our call took us as far back as 2003 and had us look forward to emerging new spaces, such as MSU’s Digital Publishing Lab. In addition to a temporal approach, our contributors also: accounted for the increasingly complex writing…