As their time with the DRC draws to a close, the 2018-2019 DRC Fellows offer reflections on their experiences, what they’ve learned, and where they go from here. Jason Tham I am thankful for the opportunity to serve as a returning DRC Fellow this year. In my first year, I learned how to engage different scholars and field leaders in sharing their projects with the greater community of digital rhetoric. This year, I got to experience another dimension of serving this field by encouraging junior scholars––graduate students and new faculty––to promote their emerging research and cutting-edge ideas through various events…
Author: Jason Tham
Jason Tham, Jialei Jiang, Adrienne Raw, Whitney Lew James, Lauren Garskie, Angela Glotfelter, Katie Walkup
Jason is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication at the University of Minnesota––Twin Cities. His current research focuses on making and design thinking in writing pedagogy, multimodality, and emerging technologies such as wearables and mixed reality.
Acknowledgement We thank all contributors of the 15th Blog Carnival for their perspectives, engaging discussion, and exemplications of multimodal design and social advocacy. Our initial intention for this blog carnival is to “to spark an interdisciplinary conversation surrounding the key role of multimodal design in fostering social advocacy within and across the fields of digital rhetoric, multimodal composition, and technical communication.” We are grateful for the examples provided by the contributors across these fields. The three main domains that have emerged from the entries in this blog carnival are pedagogical models, theoretical and practical futures, and critical reviews of multimodal…
The Digital Praxis Posters sessions (sponsored by 7Cs) have become a staple event at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). These sessions are typically held in an open area at the conference site where conference goers can simply “drop-in” to listen to a presenter or two on their digital projects. Presenters share their research and pedagogical projects via modes like websites, interactive slideware, audio, video, etc. This year in Pittsburgh, we saw more than 30 DPP presentations (see poster below). In this post, we feature a few of the presentations in which our Fellows have had the…
The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative is seeking reviewers for the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) or the 2019 Two-Year College English Association Conference (TYCA) in Pittsburgh, PA. We are particularly interested in conference reviews relating to digital rhetoric, though you can propose another session to review. Reviews are published on the DRC website to help facilitate conversations about conference sessions among attendees and others who may not have been present at the conference. If you would like to be a reviewer for a #4C19 or TYCA session, please visit this Google Spreadsheet to sign up for a…