The capacity of wiki platforms for knowledge building and curation has led to an unprecedented growth in “crowd-sourced” epistemologies in the last decade. At the Sweetland DRC, we’re harnessing wiki technology to create a resource through which individuals involved in digital rhetorics and humanities communities can come together to share disciplinary knowledge. We seek to build and sustain a diverse group of editors from all stages of the profession (advanced, undergraduate students, graduate students, newly minted PhDs, and seasoned academics) in order to build a truly representative resource. To this end, we invite academics and instructors of all ranks to…
Author: Jenae Cohn
Matthew Vetter
Jenae Cohn is a PhD candidate in English and Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies at UC Davis. Her research explores how materialities of reading and writing technologies affect established and emerging writers' perceptions of reading and writing experiences. She works in her university's WAC program as a graduate writing fellow and also serves as a HASTAC Scholar. She blogs irregularly at www.jenaecohn.net and to get herself writing, she lights candles and dons the fuzziest of socks.
I’m not completely sure how we got here so fast, but it’s November people, (which means I haven’t got nearly enough done on my dissertation) but which also means… Digital Writing Month! Or “DigiWriMo” if you prefer. To celebrate, this week’s Wiki Wednesday features a digital writing project happening right now at Ohio University, something I’m working on with a friend and colleague, the amazing and talented Sarah Einstein! Sarah’s teaching a creative nonfiction course this semester, and was kind enough to invite me to collaborate with her on a Wikipedia writing project. We spent the first few meetings arguing (good naturedly of…
(As of 2/2/2018 this storify has been archived and shared below) Last night's Twitter #DRCchat turned out out to be quite a lively discussion! The conversation was so rich, in fact, that we couldn't even get to all our prepared questions. The chat was meant to extend and enrich our most recent Blog Carnival on Multimodality and Multilingualism and I think we were incredibly successful in that regard. I especially like this mode of discussion as a means to take the Carnival beyond the "walls" of the DRC and encourage more voices in the twittersphere. Moderators @linzharding and @rhetgrrrl posed…
For this week’s Wiki Wednesday, and in celebration of Open-Access Week, we’re shining a much deserved spotlight on Dr. Dundee Lackey and her work as section editor of Kairos’ PraxisWiki, a digital “repository of useful and provocative information and ideas for scholars and teachers at the intersections of rhetoric and technology.” Dr. Lackey earned her PhD in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University, and currently teaches in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman’s University. She was kind enough to answer my questions about her time working at PraxisWiki, and offers a number of insights about…